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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and…
— Warren Spahn
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And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have…
— Edgar Cayce
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What is life, but one long risk?
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?
— Edmond Rostand
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People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but…
— Gwee Li Sui
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I just did a five-day raw-food diet, but I'll never do that again. It's really hard! I'd wake up in the morning…
— Amanda Seyfried
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What is life but playing with time?
— Keith Richards
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What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.
— Unknown Author
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or…
— Deepak Chopra
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The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
— Adyashanti
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