“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
― I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
― I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive
“People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
Literature and the Human Condition with Mr. Leon
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