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Matthew Lowery
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Politics is often about the singer, not the song; it doesn’t matter what point a person is arguing, if you think they spend their spare time whipping themselves or dressing in their dead mother’s wig, you’re not going to be receptive to
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“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
― Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
― Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.”
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“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
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