We dont know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all we don't know its history, and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity. We merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it, as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.
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Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says How nice to see children running on the grass The second tear says How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.Milan Kundera
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
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O lovers Be careful in those dangerous first days Once youve brought breakfast in bed youll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.
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Solitude a sweet absence of looks.
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
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