All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
~ Umberto Eco
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
A picture speaks 1000 words
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Depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow – or like a faithful wife.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge
to be at home everywhere.
~ György Lukács
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Existence precedes and rules essence.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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very time someone complains that our new prime minister is boring, I rue the day that politics became a performing art.
~ Peter Conrad via The Guardian
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A picture speaks 1000 words
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The highest degree of consciousness, the crassest form of ‘false consciousness’ always manifests itself when the conscious mastery of economic phenomena appears to be at its greatest.
~ György Lukács
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