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" All disgust is originally disgust at touching. "
Disgust
Touching
Originally
" All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. "
Interpretation
Form
Knowledge
" Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. "
Books
Quarrels
Public
" Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. "
Boredom
Dream
Egg
" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "
Real
Real Life
Life
" Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. "
Tell
Death
Authority
" Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. "
Borders
Memories
Passion
" Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. "
Approach
Spices
Genuine
" Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. "
Shock
Receiver
Affect
" He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. "
Lying
Someone
Dresses
" It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. "
Those
Us
Hope
" It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. "
Purpose
Judging
Attitude
" Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. "
Destruction
Substance
Living
" Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. "
Past
Experience
Lie
" Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. "
Books
Writing
Poor
" Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. "
Opinions
Matter
Interest
" Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. "
Hidden
Know
Oil
" Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. "
Out
Work
Who
" The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. "
Process
Thinking
Reality
" The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. "
Side
End
Dying
" The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. "
Fashion
Without
Art
" The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. "
Us
Psychoanalysis
Camera
" The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. "
Power
Life
Facts
" The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. "
Character
Suicide
Feeling
" The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. "
Enjoyment
Social
New
" The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. "
Happiness
Good
Beauty
" The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. "
Knowing
Love
Person
" The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. "
Past
True
Picture
" To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. "
Become
Be Happy
Happy
" Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. "
Stage
Steps
Textile
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