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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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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
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The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
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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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Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
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In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventua
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