The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure he continually restricts what he can enjoy. . .
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
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