Posts Tagged ‘quote’
May 17, 2011
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Art does not exist . . .
The atom bomb exists . . . Fear
of the bomb exists
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A surrealist
hides from daylight because it
illuminates thought
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The miserable
world is unknowable—it
does not mean a thing
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Be always on the
lookout for the mystery
of dream remembrance
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Waking life reeks of
the mediocrity of
what has never been
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I paint because I
am obliged to evoke a
translation of love
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The mind resembles
everything that hides from the
hidden visible
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Tags:art, Ceci n'est pas une pipe, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Magritte | Comments Off on Magritte
May 12, 2011
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A priest is he who
lives solely in the realm of
sweet titillation
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An artist is he
for whom Christianity
is a divine sin
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A woman should have
more than one stomach so she
can consume herself
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The sensuous kiss
of childbirth is the essence
of the feminine
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Truth is a form of
paradox; paradox is
a form of hedgehog
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Tags:German Romanticism, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Friedrich von Schlegel | Comments Off on Friedrich von Schlegel
April 22, 2011
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The beauty of a
harlot is the frenzy of
her apparatus
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Before touching a
baby one must pour oil on
its joints and spindles
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To be happy is
to be uninformed; it is
life in a nutshell
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Memory is a
robber who seizes a past
that should be interred
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Etiquette is a
quarrel with the chaotic
boredom of fashion
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To a cannibal
procreation is just too
much of a good thing
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All human knowledge
takes the form of disgust with
interpretation
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The ecstasy of
destruction spices one’s fright
of death without hope
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Art is a process
of unconscious impulses
like rustling leaves
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Social existence:
the theatre of borrowed
wayside opinions
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Quotations are the
irresponsible substance
of character shock
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Love is all optics . . .
Flashes of passion that are
not worth the trouble
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Tags:Arcades Project, haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Walter Benjamin | Comments Off on Walter Benjamin
April 6, 2011
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We must wash ourselves
in the dead; we must cleanse our
hearts of life’s despair
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True poetry is
strangulation—the throat in
hanged delirium
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A beggar is a
misunderstood genius in
search of asylum
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I will be laughing
at God through my teeth when I
commit suicide
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Those who paint Hell are
destined to burn on the stake
of unhinged culture
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I abandon my
incomprehensible words
to insane angels
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The actor must shape
nature with the violent
will of a madman
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I will restore the
magic of language with the
fever of my bones
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Opium is a
fragile obsession with the
pain of existence
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To be human, I
know I must eliminate
my psychiatrist
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I must escape from
the filth and chatter of this
tired conversation
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Tags:drama, haiku, poetry, quote, Theatre of Cruelty
Posted in Antonin Artaud | Comments Off on Antonin Artaud
March 11, 2011
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The only truth is
failure that ends in tears and
an old empty sky
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Accept confusion.
Accept pain. Accept sorrow.
Accept great silence.
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Happiness consists
in realizing the thing
to do is get drunk
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Love is a strange dream
in a foreign country where
there are no nightmares
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The ecstasy of
poetry is like the dust
of stabbed shiny stars
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The world will end, but
its music will keep rolling
on, just forever
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Tags:Beat, Duluoz, haiku, poetry, quote
Posted in Jack Kerouac | Comments Off on Jack Kerouac
March 10, 2011
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The Papacy is
an empire of secret thoughts
and obscene desires
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A man’s religion
may be erroneous; so
also his judgment
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Lust is immortal,
and the fruit thereof is the
privilege of flesh
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Prudence is nothing
but glory arising from
the chains of virtue
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The inclination
of all mankind is toward
perpetual death
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Gluttony endures
storms of conscience to voyage
on seas of pleasure
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The earth itself is
a commodious prison
of gravitation
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Absurdity is
the mother of heresy
and profane laughter
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We endure the grave
authority of nature
with restless horror
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Not believing in
art is not believing in
the future of time
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Tags:haiku, Leviathan, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Thomas Hobbes | Comments Off on Thomas Hobbes
March 2, 2011
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Dada is the false
mirror that reflects the light
of the hereafter
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A free tram ticket
to eternity is the
best class distinction
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We must erase all
the boundaries between junk
heaps and rubbish heaps
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Invest in chaos,
deform the sublime and play
only in attics
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It is essential
to take a spiritual
interest in walls
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The bourgeoisie is
as unimportant as the
proletariat
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Time is mere money . . .
Art is a self-sufficient
factory-made bank
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Paste noon and midnight
together and you’ll swindle
demanding morning
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Tags:art, Dada, haiku, Merz, poetry, quote, Ursonate
Posted in Kurt Schwitters | Comments Off on Kurt Schwitters
February 16, 2011
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Sensual excess
is the greatest of all man’s
moral principles
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A poor fool indeed
is he who adopts the Church
as his sole mistress
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Philosophy is
fiction to titillate the
imagination
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God loves the lust of
the wanton theologian . . .
And God will be served
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The flame of pain lights
the torch of torment—hence life
is agreeable
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The only way to
a man’s heart is through the plucked
flower of deathlust
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Equilibrium
can be maintained only through
the triumph of sex
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Chastity is the
vehicle by which woman
deceives reverence
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Nature subsists on
anarchy; Providence on
cruelty and vice
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, philosophy in the bedroom, poetry, quote
Posted in de Sade | Comments Off on de Sade
February 1, 2011
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Politics is the
cave art of the modern world . . .
Magic uselessness
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Advertising is
a numbing blow from which we
never recover
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Education is
public manipulation
as entertainment
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I wouldn’t have seen
it if I hadn’t believed
in television
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The medium is
the spaceship . . . The message is
immortality
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Affluence creates
insatiable appetite
and very poor art
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Processed goods, packaged
entertainment, canned music . . .
We need war fever
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The sex organs of
the corporate machine will
fecundate like bees
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Art is whatever
your senses have been programmed
to think it is not
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Your nervous system
needs protection from man-made
consumer circuits
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Tags:haiku, media theory, philosophy, poetry, quote, You Know Nothing of My Work
Posted in Marshall McLuhan | Comments Off on Marshall McLuhan
January 4, 2011
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Collapsed spirits of
messianic atheists
struggle with heaven
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My raw craving for
the eyes of God germinates
like a pious sin
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Primal hate is the
peculiar faith of humans
who are inhuman
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God has a thousand
masks but only one public
name: Incognito
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The religion of
the future will be a joy
cult of agony
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Tags:haiku, Labor Zionism, philosophy, poetry, quote
Posted in Moses Hess | Comments Off on Moses Hess
December 30, 2010
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Blue is a rocket
to the immense precision
of absolute space
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Yellow is the wind
and the rain . . . The freedom of
immaculate birds
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Orange is the void . . .
An autonomous machine
of discovery
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Red is inhuman . . .
A levitating silence
that invades the flesh
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Purple is the ash
of a spiritual fire . . .
The ghost of the soul
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Green is the hatred
of proprietors, deeds and
material form
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White is the chaos
of creation . . . It must be
eliminated
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Tags:art, haiku, Nouveau Réalisme, poetry, quote
Posted in Yves Klein | Comments Off on Yves Klein
December 18, 2010
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Most of modern rock
is schizophrenic toilet
paper lullabies
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The music of the
desert wind impresses me
more than rich churches
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Shakespeare can lift you
right out of the mobile home
and kill your neighbors
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Is there anything
more frightening than a screwed
up embossed dolphin?
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I don’t think artists
are neglected; I think they’ve
been purged by money
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Try to get others
to see the stars through the eyes
of a starving dog
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Inadvertently
contributing to the jerk
caboose isn’t good
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Work is the product
of lower mathematics
and the clock engine
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Tags:Captain Beefheart, haiku, I Had Too Much to Think, poetry, quote, Trout Mask Replica
Posted in Don Van Vliet | Comments Off on Don Van Vliet
December 9, 2010
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Sovereign beauty
cannot elude the rage of
tortured misfortune
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To place oneself in
a sexual position
with God is painful
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I dream of the fruit
of my moonlight ecstasy
with a befouled owl
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A saint is a worm
whose blood hides violent crimes
of morality
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Pleasure is only
intellectual despair
assenting to death
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The human species
is a terrifying thing
even for madmen
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Literature is
incomplete without the truth
of contradiction
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The purity of
rational calculation
is tainted thinking
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Eroticism is
a rebellion against love’s
deep incoherence
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Annihilation
is the impenetrable
essence of desire
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In order to go
astray it’s necessary
to poison meaning
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Tags:haiku, philosophy, poetry, quote, Solar Anus, Story of the Eye
Posted in Georges Bataille | Comments Off on Georges Bataille
November 25, 2010
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I’d marry Joan of
Arc for her spiritual
way in the kitchen
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If Jesus came back
he’d never get his ass out
of bed before noon
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To do a dull thing
with style, sometimes you just have
to shit in the sink
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Perpetually
clean art is detestable
horse masturbation
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It’s not possible
to love a human being
with a hangover
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Intellectual
sex is grandiose, profound
and a waste of time
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Politics is not
as important as any
good bowel movement
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If you’re losing your
soul, cut the umbilical
cord and let it go
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If you fall asleep
during intercourse, you can
fuck romanticism
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Democracy is
a mirage seen by a drunk
in the men’s crapper
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Kill the millionaires
with bad taste and put the ones
with good taste in jail
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The dictatorship
of artists is saving the
whole damn crazy world
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Humanity has
gone seventy horrible
years without a bath
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An opportunist
is a pest with money up
his bloated whore ass
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Genius might be the
ability to pee with
style while you’re voting
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Tags:Don't Try, haiku, Henry Chinaski, poetry, quote
Posted in Charles Bukowski | Comments Off on Charles Bukowski
November 22, 2010
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I want my God dead . . .
Not sick, not dying, but dead . . .
Unless He’s insane
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In America
patriotism is the poor
substitute for wit
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It is only through
art that we can know the true
value of money
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The only thing worse
than death is conversation
about the weather
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A cynic is one
who believes that a work of
fiction can’t be real
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A man can’t be too
careful in the choice of his
mother and father
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It is better to
have a permanent income
than to be a child
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Reading Henry James
over and over again
can be quite fatal
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Everything that is
popular for more than six
months is a failure
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The barbarism of
America is the curse
of its President
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Democracy is
bludgeoning us with vulgar,
stupid journalism
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Tags:haiku, poetry, quote, Reading Gaol, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Posted in Oscar Wilde | Comments Off on Oscar Wilde
November 14, 2010
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A real gentleman
would dry up at once if he
did meaningful work
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Immortality
is a devourer of the
agonized living
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One can know a god
from his laugh . . . If you like a
god’s laugh hide your heart
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The cleverest of
men know that the soul is healed
by being with fools
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If there is no God
two and two make five when you’re
counting your troubles
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There is no virtue
so old that something new can’t
be said against it
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Sarcasm is the last
refuge of those who really
love humanity
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Cannibalism is
the lowest form of pleasure . . .
Eat me and feel shame
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On the battlefield
of men and women one must
dare to lop off heads
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Happiness does not
lie in nothing left unsaid . . .
Secrets sing of joy
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Tags:haiku, Notes From Underground, philosophy, poetry, quote, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot
Posted in Dostoyevsky | Comments Off on Dostoyevsky
The Book of Haiku Revelation 