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The dicta category holds dicta

It is an extension of Jahsonic's literary canon.

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Articles in category "Dicta"

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" "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white ' 'Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions ( (Philosophy is) the yelping hound howling at her lord (poetry) 2 2 + 2 = 5 A A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain A barber, a bald man and an absent minded professor A book about nothing A country's culture can be assessed by the extent to which its lavatory walls are smeared A knife without a blade, for which the handle is missing A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman A picture is worth a thousand words A rolling stone gathers no moss A rose by any other name would smell as sweet A sadistic Bohemian, an alcoholic, and a murderous homosexual A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism Abandon all hope, you who enter here Afghanistan Bananistan Alas, poor Yorick Alea iacta est All That Is Solid Melts into Air All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music All art is erotic

A cont. All art is quite useless All determination is negation All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way All is one All men who are secure from want and care become a burden to themselves All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone All roads lead to Rome All the world's a stage All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy All's fair in love and war An artist might advance specifically to get lost And the Word was made flesh And what will you do with the grail when you have found it And yet it moves Are passions, then, the pagans of the soul Are we having fun yet Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish Art for art's sake As above, so below As for living, our servants will do that for us As long as you catch what you yourself have thrown At least I will learn this melody before I die At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman

A cont. At quo sis humilis magis et subiectus amori, hoc magis effectu saepe fruare bono Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau! Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant B Back to nature! Beam me up, Scotty Beast with two backs Beautiful as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissection table Beauty is a promise of happiness Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all Become what you are Befehl ist Befehl Bellum omnium contra omnes Better Living Through Chemistry Better were it that such literature did not exist Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect Big Fish Eat Little Fish Blah Blituri Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience Building an enormous castle and living in a shack close by But if cattle and horses and lions had hands By the displacement of an atom a world may be shaken Byron and Sade are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns C Can't say what they mean don't mean what they say

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