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    Mel Brooks
    “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
    ― Mel Brooks
    tags: comedy, humor, tragedy
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    Euripides
    “Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
    ― Euripides, Medea
    tags: hate, tragedy
    307 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.”
    ― Salvador Dalí
    tags: art, dali, modern, salvador, tragedy
    68 likes

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    Camille Paglia
    “We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
    ― Camille Paglia
    tags: america, art, criticism, culture, democrat, inspirational, liberal, libertarian, republican, responsibility, sex, trauma, victim
    302 likes

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    Camille Paglia
    “Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”
    ― Camille Paglia
    tags: human-nature
    134 likes

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    Camille Paglia
    “The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture”
    ― Camille Paglia
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    Gore Vidal
    “The unfed mind devours itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal
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    Gore Vidal
    “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
    ― Gore Vidal, Julian
    2058 likes

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    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
    tags: poetry
    6198 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
    ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    tags: art, haunted, house, nature
    1039 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Beauty is not caused. It is.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: beauty
    778 likes

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  • #12
    Emily Dickinson
    “Because I could not stop for Death –
    He kindly stopped for me –
    The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
    And Immortality.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: attachment, death, loss, worth
    1558 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
    tags: psychology
    1219 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
    tags: audiences, folly, fools, humor, readership, writing
    1014 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    1091 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “One should use common words to say uncommon things”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing
    895 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: patriotism
    912 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

    Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: determinism, free-will, idealism, pessimism
    816 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational
    543 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
    tags: manners, politeness, rudeness
    464 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: divine, god, houmor, humour, man, sense
    554 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Life is a constant process of dying.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: philosophy-of-life
    648 likes

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  • #24
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
    562 likes

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    Jeanette Winterson
    “There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    195 likes

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    Camille Paglia
    “Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”
    ― Camille Paglia
    63 likes

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    Camille Paglia
    “Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.”
    ― Camille Paglia
    tags: gay, masculinity, sexual-politics
    68 likes

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  • #28
    Camille Paglia
    “We must accept our pain
    Change what we can
    and laugh at the rest”
    ― Camille Paglia
    84 likes

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    Camille Paglia
    “Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
    ― Camille Paglia
    67 likes

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  • #30
    Camille Paglia
    “The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.”
    ― Camille Paglia
    tags: camille-paglia
    299 likes



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