Re: elegy
June 7, 2010
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QUOTATIONS
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Since I spend most of my time reading, the most enjoyable moments in my daily existence are quotable lines.
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BALZAC
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“The fate of the house hangs on the wedding night.”
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“Nature makes only dull animals; we owe the fool to society.”
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“Love and hatred are feelings that feed on themselves, but of the two, hatred has a longer lifespan.”
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KURT VONNEGUT
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“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
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DEFINITIONS FROM
A DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY
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“Generally speaking megalomania is a reaction to failure. The megalomaniac represents himself as he would like to be but as he is not. Megalomania may also be a symptom of the decline of one’s critical faculties.”
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On dogmatism:
“It stands in direct contradiction to criticism, skepticism, empiricism, and realism.
It fosters intolerance and fanaticism.”
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
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“Who is a Zek’s [an inmate of the Gulag]] worst enemy? Another Zek.”
Zeks too, I thought.
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
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“And he whose soul is flat – the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.”
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MARILYN MONROE
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"Khruschev looked at me the way a man looks on a woman."
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June 7, 2010
************************************************** *
QUOTATIONS
**************************************
Since I spend most of my time reading, the most enjoyable moments in my daily existence are quotable lines.
*
BALZAC
**********************
“The fate of the house hangs on the wedding night.”
*
“Nature makes only dull animals; we owe the fool to society.”
*
“Love and hatred are feelings that feed on themselves, but of the two, hatred has a longer lifespan.”
*
KURT VONNEGUT
*******************************
“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
*
DEFINITIONS FROM
A DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY
********************************************
“Generally speaking megalomania is a reaction to failure. The megalomaniac represents himself as he would like to be but as he is not. Megalomania may also be a symptom of the decline of one’s critical faculties.”
*
On dogmatism:
“It stands in direct contradiction to criticism, skepticism, empiricism, and realism.
It fosters intolerance and fanaticism.”
*
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
************************************************** *
“Who is a Zek’s [an inmate of the Gulag]] worst enemy? Another Zek.”
Zeks too, I thought.
*
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
**********************************************
“And he whose soul is flat – the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.”
*
MARILYN MONROE
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"Khruschev looked at me the way a man looks on a woman."
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