- Immature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
- Swimming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
- Immature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020