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“My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?”
― Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

“If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”
― Arnold Schoenberg, Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What?”
― Richard Nixon

“bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“I would have made a good pope.”
― Richard Nixon

“Solutions are not the answer.”
― Richard Nixon

“I know you think you believe you understand what you thought I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is exactly what I meant.”
― Richard Nixon

“I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.”
― Richard Nixon

“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”
― Richard M. Nixon

“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.”
― Richard Nixon

“I let the American people down.”
― Richard Milhous Nixon

“The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.”
― Richard M Nixon

“I am not a crook.”
― Richard M. Nixon

“History will treat me fairly. Historians probably won't, because most historians are on the left.”
― Richard M. Nixon

“Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.”
― Rene Char

“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . . . And if we want to go beyond history, or even, while remaining in history, detach from our own history the always too contingent history of the persons who have encumbered it, we realize that the calendars of our lives can only be established in its imagery.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“crowd of frenzied females,”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
― Hart Crane