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“This is how men ought to be, in order to be happy and to make others happy; but you have to reckon on their not being like that”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“But formulas are holy as prayers, decree-laws, and dead languages, and not an iota in them can be changed. And so my ammonium chloride, the twin of a happy love and a liberating book, by now completely useless and a bit harmful, is religiously ground into the chromate anti-rust paint on the short of that lake, and nobody knows why anymore.”
― The Periodic Table
― The Periodic Table
“poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements”
― Poetics
― Poetics
“The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
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