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It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear -- like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand.Alfred Jarry
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
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