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Amlux

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Amlux’s Quotes

“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard

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“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
― Li Po

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“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies

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“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
― Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

tags: faults

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“Even a soul submerged in sleep
is hard at work and helps
make something of the world.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

tags: heraclitus, philosophy, sleep, wisdom

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