June 2012
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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea...
– Leo Tolstoy on art, along with other great definitions from antiquity to today
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There is a kind of comfort in self-condemnation. When we condemn, we think that...
– Oscar Wilde
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C’est cette horreur de la solitude, le besoin d’oublier son moi dans la chair...
– Charles Baudelaire - Mon coeur mis a nu
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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and...
– Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair
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Death doesn’t exist. It never did, it never will. But we’ve drawn so many...
– Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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I had no first love. I began with the second.
– Ivan Turgenev, First Love.
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