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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
[ Ambition ]
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
[ Depression ]
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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
[ Paranoia ]
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In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
[ Cinema ]
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
[ Suffering ]
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
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Taste has no system and no proofs.
[ Taste ]
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
[ Possibilities ]
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
[ Photography ]
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
[ Problems ]
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
[ Truth ]
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
[ Pornography ]
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