Monthly Archives: July 2012
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.
~ H. L. Mencken
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A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
~ Umberto Eco
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Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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