I can’t conceive of my vocation or obligations as living separate from my desires, because my vocation and obligations are the realization of my desires.
~ Salvador Dali
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I can’t conceive of my vocation or obligations as living separate from my desires, because my vocation and obligations are the realization of my desires.
~ Salvador Dali
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About my future I know nothing; I consider myself to be a great mystery.
~ Salvador Dali
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Our ideal is to succeed in producing an art as pure as that of lunatics, but which is not that.
~ Salvador Dali
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In the Surrealist period I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world – the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. I succeeded in doing it.
~ Salvador Dali
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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
~ Hannah Arendt
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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
~ Hannah Arendt
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