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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 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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“The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.”
― Italo Calvino

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“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
― Louise Gluck

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