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: No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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resident mockery give us an hour for magic
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Do you speak scorn and mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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Saying "We will destroy terrorism" is about as meaningful as saying: "We shall annihilate mockery."
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George Farquhar :
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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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Happiness is the longing for repetition.
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The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
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The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.
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