“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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“What pillow can one have like a good conscience?”
― Tortilla Flat
― Tortilla Flat
“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short, a sum of human relations which were poetically and rhetorically heightened, transferred, and adorned, and after long use seem solid, canonical, and binding to a nation. Truths are illusions about which it has been forgotten that they are illusions.
from "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense”
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from "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense”
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