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“Brunettes are full of electricity.”

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Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was a French writer known for his fantasy and symbolic works. Born on November 7, 1838, he was a prominent figure in the literary world of his time. His writing often explored themes of beauty, decadence, and the supernatural, making him a notable figure in the late 19th century. more

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“My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?”

Doe Self My Own Consciousness Cry Zero One Love Self Consciousness

Author:Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.”

Men Humans Seems Turns Hundred Every Man Phrases Repeats Occupation Routine Formulas Vocabulary Twists Twists And Turns

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“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”

Book:The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

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“for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”

Humans Fear Peace Race Civilization Human Race Zone Civilized Twilight Zone

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“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”

“The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?”

Men Stills Philosophy Problem Political Fighting Saws Fundamentals Salvation Political Philosophy Servitude Spinoza

Book:Anti-Oedipus

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“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.”

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“What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit.”

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“I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!”

Thinking Solutions Bottom Obvious Satisfied Thinker Arrogant Sheer Commandments Skeptical Coarse Inquisitive Crass

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.”

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Author:Philip Pullman