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Taste has no system and no proofs.


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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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.



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

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.



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

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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