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“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
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“bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-nuk!
[A sound which represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve.]”
― Finnegans Wake
[A sound which represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve.]”
― Finnegans Wake
“Convictions are prisons.”
― The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ
― The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ
“So weenybeenyveenyteeny.”
― Finnegans Wake
― Finnegans Wake
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”
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