What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

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I have no friends, there are only people I love.

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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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