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bobo (boheme-bourgeois), sailing, eyes, hands, tennis , languages, not francophilia, strangers, odd people, backgammon, independent & foreign films, learning, fashion, chess, art, critique'ing bad bad art , espresso, intensity , simplicity, dualism, the ocean, the sun, chocolate, accents, contradictions, incessant reading, great minds, intelligent criticism , people who are smarter than me, classics, theater, music.
Visual Arts
Balthus, Francis Picabia, Nejad Devrim, Caravaggio, Juan Munoz, Francois-Marie Banier, Raffaello, Rembrandt, Paul Cezanne, Gustave Courbet, Salvador Dali, Jean-Auguste Ingres, Lucian Freud , Giorgio de Chirico, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Durer, Maqbool Fida Husain , Paul Gauguin, Artemisia Gentileschi, Alberto Giacometti , Vincent van Gogh, Francesco Goya, Jasper Johns, Freida Kahlo, Paul Klee, William Kentridge , Leonardo da Vinci, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Edouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani , Claude Monet, Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso , Pierre Auguste Renoir, Gerhard Richter, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, Egon Schiele, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Willem de Kooning , William Turner, Diego Velazquez, Jan Vermeer, Edouard Vuillard, Andy Warhol
Literature
Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre, Miguel Cervantes, Italo Calvino, Giovanni Boccacio, Stefan Zweig , Anton Chekhov, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Genet, Khalil Gibran, Herman Hesse, Shirley Hazzard, Oscar Wilde, Ayn Rand
, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Dante, Goethe, John Locke, Michel Foucault, Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Vlad Vlad Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Pablo Neruda, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Paulo Coelho, Ivan Turgenev, Daniel Quinn, Umberto Eco , Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Nicolo Machiavelli, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Prevert, Sandor Marai, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Susan Sonntag, Irvin Yalom, Voltaire
the worth, only...
Woman Times Seven
The year was 1967, Rome and Paris were the glam counterparts to swinging London, and Vittorio De Sica directed 'Sette Volte Donna'; one woman played seven parts, in a wardrobe as fresh as it was on the Via Veneto.
Linda , the bohemian stewardess who needs a man with whom she can discuss Sartre in the nude.
Paulette , who plans her next romance during her husband's funeral procession.
Eve , who plots to firebomb her rival to prevent her from wearing the same dress.
Marie , in a suicide pact with her lover, doesn't trust him to pull the trigger.
Edith , and author's wife suffers from character envy.
Maria Teresa , who catches Giorgio in bed with another woman and vows to become a hooker: 'I'm going with the fruit man.'
Jean , who's got the hots for the private eye whom her husband has hired to follow her.
Drop a Comment...
Pink Floyd, Magnet, Ray LaMontagne, Paris Combo , Dawn Penn, Doobie Brothers, Feist, Eros Ramazotti, Gilberto Gil, Bebel Gilberto , Franz Liszt, Ornella Vanoni, Carla Bruni, Gilbert Becaud, Sade, Adriano Celentano, The Doors, Miles Davis, Queen, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Buena Vista Social Club , Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Pink Martini, Rachmaninov, Diana Krall , Charles Aznavour, Louis Armstrong, Moloko, Duran Duran, Stan Getz , Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Portishead, Eminem, Andrea Bocelli, Eric Clapton, Verdi, Gilberto Gil, Cafe del Mar, Santana, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Serge Gainsbourg, Paco de Lucia , Dalida, Patricia Kaas, Puccini, Yves Montand, Vangelis, Edith Piaf , Al di Meola, Vaya Con Dios, Oscar Peterson, Jacques Brel, Gary Moore, Yo-Yo Ma , Itzhak Perlman, Astor Piazolla , John McLaughlin, Caetano Veloso, Sibelius, Luciano Pavorotti, Juliette Greco, Stephan Graphelli, Maria Rita, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Cozy Cole, Lama, Gal Costa, Nirvana Unplugged, Mina , Lhasa de Sela, Federic Chopin
Spellbound (1945)
Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Visconti)
The Libertine
Fort Alamo
Good Night, and Good Luck
The Godfather
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
V for Vendetta
Ocean's 11 (Original)
Scent of a Woman
Amores Perros
The Emperors New Groove
Le Fate Ignorante
The Devil's Advocate
The Untouchables
The Thomas Crown Affair
Original Sin
The Tailor of Panama
The Decameron (Pasolini)
The Talented Mr. Ripley
I Ladri di Biciclette (De Sica)
Gone With the Wind
Breakfast at Tiffany's
City of God
Dangerous Liaisons
Great Expectations
Crash
March of the Penguins
The Lover
Against the Wall
Casablanca
The Magnificent men and their Flying Machines
Blow
Murder on the Orient Express
We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent. We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this.
But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it may see a totally different picture too late.
Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are then history will take its revenge, and retribution will not limp in catching up with us.
Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday nigh the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey
on the state of American education. And a week or two later, the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thorough-going study of American policy in the Middle East. Would the corporate image of their respective sponsors be damaged? Would the shareholders rise up in their wrath and complain? Would anything happen other than a few million people would have received a little illumination on subjects that may well determine the future of this country and therefore the future of the corporations?
To those who say, "People wouldn't look, they wouldn't be interested, they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated" I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention.
But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing, but to entertain, amuse and insulate then the tube is flickering now, and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost.
This instrument can teach, it can illuminate and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it towards those ends. Otherwise, it is merely wiresand lights in a box.
Good night, and good luck.
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Alberto Moravia
The Woman of Rome
Milan Kundera
Unbearable lightness of being
Slowness
Paulo Coelho
Veronika Decides to Die
The Alchemist
Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in Time of Cholera
Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from the Underground
The Gambler
The Idiot
Crime and Punishment
Giovanni Boccacio
The Decameron
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael
Umberto Eco
Baudolino
History of Beauty
How to Travel With a Salmon
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Le Petit Prince
Nicolo Machiavelli
The Prince
The Art of War
Stefan Zweig
Casanova
Beware of Pity
Confusion
The Royal Game
24 Hrs in the life of a woman
Letter of an unknown woman
Fouche: Portrait of a Politician
Jacques Lacan
Ecrits
Sigmund Freud
The Moses of Michelangelo
Interpretation of Dreams
Leonardo da Vinci
Jacques Prevert
Paroles
Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto
Philosophy: Who Needs It
The Virtue of Selfishness
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
Sandor Marai
Embers
Casanova in Bolzano
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ecco Homo
On the Genealogy of Morals
The Twilight of the Idols
Jacques Derrida
La Carte postale
Susan Sonntag
The Volcano Lover
On Photography
Irvin Yalom
When Nietzsche Wept
Voltaire
Candide
***Kundera for the melancholic mind, Garcia Marquez for the mystical mind, Turgenev for the social mind, Eco for the dreaming mind, Machiavelli for the cruel mind, Stefan Zweig for the psychological mind, Sigmund Freud for the ballsy mind.
"Shut up", he explained.
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Ring Lardner
"I will judge you."
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Ezequiel
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
"Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl."
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Evan Esar
"I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for tobacco since."
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Arturo Toscanini
"... human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mother gave birth to them, but that life obliges them to give birth to themselves."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me"
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Jimmy Buffett
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
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Charles Baudelaire
"The question isn't who is going to let me, but who is going to stop me."
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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."
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Solomon Short
"Trust everyone, but always cut the cards."
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W.C.Fields
"Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself."
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Alexander Walker
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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Peter Ustinov
"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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Robert McCloskey
"Apres Moi, le Déluge"
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Louis XV
"Most artists are sincere and most art is bad, though some insincere (sincerely insincere) works can be quite good."
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Igor Stravinsky
"The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are not worth understanding.
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Ivan Turgenev
"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."
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Sacha Guitry
"What does a woman want?"
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Sigmund Freud
"The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once..."
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Anonymous
"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."
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Rodney Dangerfield
"A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."
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Milton Berle
"Je est un autre."
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Rimbaud
"Se avessi piu tempo, il mio testo sarebbe piu breve."
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Pascal
"Oui, Bach, Mozart, Dieu, elles commencent toujours par ça. Ça fait conversation honnête, alibi moral. Et quinze jours plus tard, trapèze volant sur le lit."
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Albert Cohen - Belle du Seigneur
"to remind man of what in reality he is, to give him a theme for reflection, to shock him in order to rescue him from the madness of inauthenticity and to lead him to self-discorvery"
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Antoni TÃ pies
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
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Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)
"Better disparity and dislocation rather than reconciliation under duress of subject and object; better a lucid exile than sloppy, sentimental homecomings; better the logic of dissociation than an assembly of compliant dunces. A belligerent intelligence is always to be preferred over that conformity offers, no matter how unfriendly the circumstances and unfavorable the outcome. The point is that the past cannot be entirely recuperated from so much power arrayed against it on the other side: it can only be restated in the form of an object without a conclusion, or a final place, transformed by choice and conscious effort into something simultaneously different, ordinary and irreducibly other and the same, taking place together: an object that offers neither rest nor respite."
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Edward Said
"J'suis snob... Foutrement snob. Tous mes amis le sont, On est snobs et c'est bon"
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Boris Vian
"The disaster always takes place after having taken place"
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Maurice Blanchot
"Noblesse oblige."
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Honoré de Balzac
Don't stick to your opinions any more than to your words. If any one asks you for them, let him have them- at a price. A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility. There are no such things as principles; there are only events, and there are no laws but those of expediency: a man of talent accepts events and the circumstances in which he finds himself, and turns everything to his own ends.
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Honoré de Balzac
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Salvador Dali
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Salvador Dali
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Honore de Balzac
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
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William S. Burroughs
"My dear Zeno, I am the most intelligent man in Trieste. You are the fifth most intelligent. Positions two, three and four are vacant."
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Italo Svevo - Confessions of Zeno
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
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Isaac Asimov
"There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself."
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Louis XIV
"Il faut vivre comme on pense, sinon tôt ou tard on finit par penser comme on a vécu."
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Paul Bourget
We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Henry James
"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose."
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C. Wright Mills
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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Bertrand Russell
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
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Anatole France
"I never know how much of what I say is true."
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Bette Midler
"Prithee, peace:
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none."
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Macbeth, Shakespeare
"Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent."
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Viola, Shakespeare
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
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Soren Kierkegaard
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"Actions lie louder than words."
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Carolyn Wells
"Il n'y a personne qui soit ne sous une mauvaise toile, il n'y a que des gens qui ne savent pas lire le ciel."
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Dala Lama
"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
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Rita Rudner
"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence"
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Baudrillard
"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'."
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Michael McClary
"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."
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Steve Martin
"Never confuse movement with action."
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Ernest Hemingway
"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."
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Thomas Neill
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
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-Michelangelo
"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
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Harry S Truman
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
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George Jackson
"I don't know anything about music. In my line of work, you don't have to."
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Elvis Presley
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
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David T. Wolf
"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
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Al Capp
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
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Henry Kissinger
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
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Henry Kissinger
"It is pleasant at times to play the madman."
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Seneca
"Vivre sa vie cest dcider de se frotter celle des autres et il faut pas se tromper dautres, sinon cest la dbcle."
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Joy Sorman
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
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Brendan Gill
"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
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John Mason Brown
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
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Robert Frost
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that someone living anywhere else has to be, in some sense, kidding."
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John Updike
"The future of art is in a woman's face. Tell me, Picasso, how do you make love to a cube?"
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Amadeo Modigliani
"Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita."
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Vladimir Nabokov
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
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HL Mencken
"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
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Italian Proverb
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."
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Abbie Hoffman
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Voici mon secret. il est trs simple : on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music."
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our
abilities do not exist."
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Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
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Carl Jung
"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
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Marquis de Sade
"It's worse then a crime, it's a mistake."
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Joseph Fouche
"Les cons me cernent!"
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Ozul
"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
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Mark Twain
"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."
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Cyril Connolly
"Only firm people can be truly soft. [Il n'y a que les personnes qui ont de la
fermet qui puissent avoir une vritable douceur.]"
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength."
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Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere ."
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Voltaire
"We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
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W.H Auden
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
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Paul Gauguin
"Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!"
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Khalil Gibran
"I hope, Doctor Breuer, the time will come when neither men nor women are tyrannized by each other's frailties..."
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Irwin Yalom
"Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address."
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Lane Olinghouse
"i send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory."
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Alexander the Great
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
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Sophocles
"Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. "
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David Letterman
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them; and that custom, respect, and tyranny support them in order to make the blindless of men serve their own interests.
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason, and morality."
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Baron D'Holbach
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."
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Anais Nin
"and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
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The Beatles
"If it is profit that a man is after, he should become a merchant, and if he does the job of a bookseller, he should renounce the name of poet."
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Stefan Zweig
"The outcasts, the branded, the ugly the withered, the deformed, the despised and rejected, desire with a more passionate, far more dangerous avidity than the happy; that they love with a fanatical, a baleful, a black love, and that no passion on earth rears its head so greedily, so desperately, as the forlorn and hopeless passion of these stepchildren of God, who feel that they can only justify their earthly existence by loving and being loved".[Beware of Pity, p. 222]
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Stefan Zweig