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His past, again like Dali's, had to be mythologised. For, let's face it, his lower-middle-class upbringing was not exactly Angela's Ashes

The great obstacle to the 'struggle toward clear vision of the universal' is the human trait that Mondrian variously calls 'individuality,' 'personality'... [p.73]

the scenes and moments that elbow their way to positions of prominence.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

You know the deal," Marty said. "If I cook the food, you do the dishes." "I didn't ask you to cook," Luther said. "I wasn't even hungry." "That's odd. You ate most of the food." "I was just being polite.

Don't worry. Felix is subtler than he looks. And he's not an assassin." The four vaporized terrorists north of us would probably disagree, I thought.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

It happens, too, that I've more belief in the fetishes of my black people than in the political and industrial trash in which others want to submerge them.

His secretary, who acted as interpreter, was to say, later, that this glance of hatred was the first sign he had given of returning health.

She was too ignorant, uneducated, in that kind of physically sophisticated, lovely-assed Texan way. An American primitive.

Boldel de saclé nom de Dieu ! dit alors en bâillant le bébé sur le plancher. Boldel de saclé nom de Dieu, quelle famille ! Vous avez pas un journal ou quelque chose ? On s'emmelde ici !

the public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature...A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power!

Hey this is Lenore! Yup, it sure is Lenore! Huh, maybe he can't hear me, maybe I should spell it. L-e-n-o-p There's no p in Lenore , Lenore. Oh yeah? Then what's this raggamuffin? Pssssssssssss Aaaaagh! How are you even projecting it at that angle!?!

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

Periodization based on religion as the sole criterion of historical activity is a negation of history.

The secular critique of communalism is not an opposition to religion but to the abuse of religion.

Historiography therefore becomes a prelude to understanding history as a form of knowledge.