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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
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To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.
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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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A man able to think isn't defeated—even when he is defeated.
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The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
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And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
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Chance and chance alone has a message for us... Only chance can speak to us.
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Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.
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All man's life among men is nothing more than a battle for the ears of others.
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo.
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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces.
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No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
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Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
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In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ears of others.
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Like parodies of themselves, theological notions are reflected in the triviality of our lives.
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We can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.
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But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
April 1, 1929
Died:
July 11, 2023
(aged 94)
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