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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
— William Shakespeare
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It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to…
— Rajneesh
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"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency,…
— Saint Augustine
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When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for…
— Rick Warren
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There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his…
— Christine de Pizan
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The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx…
— Robert Pinsky
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols…
— Ken Wilber
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Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
— Euripides
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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down…
— Joseph Furphy
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MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when…
— Jonathan Swift
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No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a…
— Michael Novak
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