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“To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.”

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Stephane Mallarme was a French poet known for his symbolism and unique aesthetic approach. His works have had a profound impact on 20th-century poetry. more

“As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.”

Way Want Humans Children Doe Wish Human Beings Powerful Mindfulness Kitten Mindless

Book:Always coming home

Source: Always coming home

“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”

Pleasure Mass Envy Scales Envied

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.”

Chiefs Vocation

Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

“As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”

Important Red Important Days

Author:Anna Godbersen

“Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.”

Wells Unconventional

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.”

Believe Desire Failing Perception Contrary Tempted Phenomenology

Book:Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction

Source: Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction

“When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.”

Trying Eye Sleep Worry Horse Tired Peaceful Mourning

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love”

Ifs Matter Emotion Wonder Saws Sea Poet Bottles Shore Unsure

Book:She

Source: She

“Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.”

Source: On stage: a chrestomathy of his plays

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