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1625 Essayist Quotes

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Arms Better Fine Gesture
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Been Eclectic Far Fun
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The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Code Image Message Photographic
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Always Invisible Photograph See
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Ahead Alienation Day Escape
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
Fashion New Value
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Any Blame Call Discourse
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Confession Lie Myth Neither
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Image Itself Passion Public
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The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Block Creates Itself Man
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Einstein Formula Image Knowledge
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Claim Condition Contradiction Full
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Cannot Even Literature Must
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Being Clearly Deal Ending
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The truth is that more people have been killed by terrorists in the North West, North East and North Central zones of Nigeria over the last 5 years than in the entire south. Buhari is an even bigger curse to his own constituency than anywhere else. Nigeria deserves better.

The truth More people Killed Terrorist
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Hundreds of thousands of people are being butchered by terrorists all over the country as Buhari marks his 5 years in office whilst poverty, diesease, despair, hunger, fear & Covid 19 ravages the land. What type of man says & does nothing whilst his people are being slaughtered?

People Being butchered Terrorist Country
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The emergence of Buhari in 2015 annihilated Nigeria & plunged her into darkness, death & destruction. He came to steal, kill & destroy & for the last 5 disastrous years that is all he has done.

The emergence Annihilated Into darkness Death
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Two days ago the prophecy came to pass as the "short man", was appointed Chairman of the 'Use The Toilet Committee of Nigeria'. The Bible says "what profiteth a man to gain the world and lose his soul?" Vice President of Shitty Matters, how do you feel now?

Prophecy To pass Was appointed Chairman
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The minute a man says ANYTHING in his home belongs to him and not to both him and his wife he ceases to be a man and the marriage or union is not a serious one. The only thing that belongs to me in my home are my boxer shorts. Everything else belongs to both me and my wife.

Says Anything Home Belong
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The best thing that a man can do is to give up and let go when he knows that all is lost. Be bold and wise enough to know that you have lost the battle & save as many of your troops as you can by retreating. Learn to let go, heal, gain your strength & live to fight another day.

Best thing A man Give up Knows
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There is no glory in shame. There is no honor in defeat. There is no dignity in failure. There is no gain in whining & telling a long & pitiful story to 'friendly ears', 'concerned friends', 'eager supporters' & 'free loaders' who will use it to mock and insult you and yours later.

Glory In shame Honor Defeat
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It is good to remember your roots but it is bad to be fixated on them & to forget the rest of the world. Never forget where you are coming from and who stood by you during hard times but at the same time always remember that there are new mountains to climb and new territories to conquer.

Good remember Roots Bad Rest
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To those that are too young to know, during the coup d'etat against Buhari's vicious & murderous military regime in 1985 it was Dangiwa Umar who effected his arrest in Dodan Barracks & took him into custody

Too young To know Military regime
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Writer Someone Writing More difficult
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Love Reason Stronger than Death
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Books Ourselves Strangely enough Great pleasure
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Tolerance Crime Applied Evil
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Laughter Sunbeam The soul
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War Cowardly escape Problems Peace
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He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Who loves The more Inferior Must suffer
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There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

So many Different kind Stupidity Cleverness
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Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Art Funnel Spirit Poured
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Are carnal Love Death Terror
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Harmful truth Better than Useful lie
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Interest Disease Death Expression
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We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting

Fear Called meticulous Inclining Exhaustive
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Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Only love Not reason Kind thoughts
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What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

What good Politics be Give everyone Opportunity
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Opinions Survive No chance Fight
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Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

Life Goodness Irrespective Course
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Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Death Dignifies Our sufferings Eyes
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Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the pious formula, into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Myth Foundation Life Timeless pattern
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Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge

Man loves Honors Not able Judge him
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Whoever is unable to stand up for an ideal with his person, his arm, his blood, is unworthy of that ideal, and no matter how intellectual one may become, what matters is that one remains a man.

Whoever Unable to Stand up His blood
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How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?

Free myself Sexuality Eat nothing Rice
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To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Find peace Faultless Desire Seeks excellence
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Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.

Passion Live Life's sake Experience
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A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and his contemporaries

Human being Lives Personal life Individual
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