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“Could mendacious sincerity, consummately performed, be the ultimate deception?”
― A Man
― A Man
“The artist does not ascribe to the natural form of appearance the same convincing significance as the realists who are his critics. He does not feel so intimately bound to that reality, because he cannot see in the formal products of nature the essence of the creative process. He is more concerned with formative powers than with formal products.”
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“Having died young, you will never be old.”
― Suicide
― Suicide
“How peculiar that she saw her son every day but had only succeeded in drawing closer to him through a book.”
― A Man
― A Man
“Comedy is a lie, too, of course. It’s a defense, an aggression. It is a thing created to separate, to say, “I am not like this.” It is Godlike in its judgment and, by definition, the antithesis of empathy. Comedy sits on its throne and states: You are ridiculous. You are pathetic. You are stupid. Your pain amuses me. Most important, I am not you. Even comedy directed at the self, the stand-ups, the Woody Allens of the world, is performed as an act of defense: I am in on the joke that is me, therefore the joke is not me.”
― Antkind
― Antkind
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