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“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
― Society of the Spectacle
― Society of the Spectacle
“Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― At Swim-Two-Birds
― At Swim-Two-Birds
“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”
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“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
― The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
― The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology
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On Paths Unknown
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