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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
- Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
- Ecstasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
- Boredom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
- Originally
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- Nov 07, 2020
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020