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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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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
— Martha Beck
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
— Ramana Maharshi
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience…
— Henry Beston
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Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and…
— Philip Guston
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Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
— Paul Klee
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man,…
— Douglas Adams
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Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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