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Passion paralyzes good taste.


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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.



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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.



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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.



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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.



I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.



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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.



Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.



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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.



A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.





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Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.



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I've always had this juxtaposition of characters, because I'm an artist. I'm a very quiet person at home and introspective and the whole deal, and then I can be really big later. I had no problem.



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What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?




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