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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits…
• Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does…
• People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no…
• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
• There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
• Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
• War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be…
• There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the…
• He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
• The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
• We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at…
• The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

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