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#1

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: love, ordinary, people

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#2

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

tags: love, romance

7382 likes

#3

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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#4

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: agree

2674 likes

#5

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”
― Marcel Duchamp

tags: language, misunderstanding, understanding

198 likes

#6

“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”
― Marcel Duchamp

tags: art, artists

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#7

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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― Marcel Duchamp

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#8

“Destruction is also creation.”
― Marcel Duchamp

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#9

“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
― Marcel Duchamp

tags: appreciation, art, creative-process, creativity

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#10

“I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.”
― Marcel Duchamp

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#11

“The most interesting thing about artists is how they live”
― Marcel Duchamp, The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

tags: droll-comment

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#12

“My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see”
― Marcel Duchamp

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#13

“Traditionally, artists suffered for their art, now it's the audience.”
― Marcel Duchamp

tags: art, audience, modernism

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#14

“André Breton was a lover of love in a world who believes in prostitution.”
― Marcel Duchamp

tags: andré-breton, marcel-duchamp

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#15

“Dada is like your hopes: nothing
like your paradise: nothing
like your idols: nothing
like your heroes: nothing
like your artists: nothing
like your religions: nothing”
― Francis Picabia

tags: dadaism

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#16

“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way."

- Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918”
― Tristan Tzara

tags: dada, dadaism

52 likes

#17

“Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
― Jean Baudrillard

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#18

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

816 likes

#19

“She believed in nothing. Only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: atheism, belief, scepticism, skepticism

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#20

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

1742 likes

#21

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

4320 likes

#22

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

402 likes

#23

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: hell, solipsism

632 likes

#24

“Only describe, don't explain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#25

“Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

tags: meaning, nonsense, philosophy

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