• Art and Culture

  All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

  4.3 · 8 votes · 28 reads

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• Various

  An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  3.9 · 52 votes · 71 reads

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• Time

  And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

  4.3 · 39 votes · 86 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

  4.0 · 24 votes · 124 reads

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• Feelings

  Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

  3.7 · 53 votes · 164 reads

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• Feelings

  Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  3.4 · 9 votes · 45 reads

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• Various

  Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

  4.9 · 53 votes · 23 reads

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• Society

  Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few mon

  3.7 · 52 votes · 116 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

  4.7 · 39 votes · 150 reads

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• Feelings

  Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

  3.1 · 30 votes · 162 reads

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• Various

  I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the ba

  3.7 · 36 votes · 29 reads

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• Countries

  I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

  3.0 · 15 votes · 17 reads

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• Countries

  I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

  4.9 · 12 votes · 113 reads

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• Virtues

  I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

  3.1 · 30 votes · 42 reads

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• Defects

  If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

  4.3 · 25 votes · 167 reads

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• Art and Culture

  If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  4.4 · 58 votes · 197 reads

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• Virtues

  Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

  3.1 · 64 votes · 128 reads

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• Nature

  In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

  3.3 · 45 votes · 123 reads

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• Various

  It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

  4.8 · 46 votes · 194 reads

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• Government and Politics

  It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  3.6 · 27 votes · 190 reads

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• Nature

  Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

  3.6 · 9 votes · 194 reads

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• Defects

  Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

  4.9 · 48 votes · 58 reads

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• Defects

  Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

  4.7 · 6 votes · 37 reads

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• Nature

  Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

  3.8 · 31 votes · 63 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since

  3.5 · 46 votes · 60 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

  3.1 · 51 votes · 14 reads

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• Time

  No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

  3.7 · 17 votes · 121 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

  3.4 · 23 votes · 54 reads

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• Government and Politics

  One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

  3.2 · 57 votes · 198 reads

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• Virtues

  One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

  4.7 · 58 votes · 76 reads

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• Nature

  Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

  4.1 · 43 votes · 109 reads

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• Countries

  Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of

  3.0 · 36 votes · 198 reads

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• Time

  Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

  3.8 · 47 votes · 111 reads

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• Feelings

  Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

  4.6 · 22 votes · 87 reads

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• Nature

  Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

  3.4 · 17 votes · 79 reads

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• Virtues

  Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  3.0 · 13 votes · 85 reads

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• Time

  The American ideal is youth -handsome, empty youth.

  3.7 · 9 votes · 136 reads

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• Society

  The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin de

  4.4 · 42 votes · 89 reads

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• Defects

  The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarce

  4.9 · 28 votes · 175 reads

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• Nature

  The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

  4.6 · 23 votes · 58 reads

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