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T The mind of man is capable of anything The mirror turn lamp The nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles The only church that illuminates is a burning church The only way for us to become great lies in the imitation of the Greeks The past is a foreign country The pen is mightier than the sword The phosphorescence of decay The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice The road to hell is paved with good intentions The road up and the road down are the same thing The sexual impulse ... appears as a malevolent demon that strives to pervert, confuse, and overthrow everything The show must go on The simplest Surrealist act consists of running down into the street, pistols in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female The terrestrial globe is covered with volcanoes, which serve as its anus The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy The whole is more than the sum of its parts The will is a strong blind man The world exists to end up in a book The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man There are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels and only 8 who do There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy There is no alternative There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion There is no great genius without some touch of madness There is no science of the accident There is no such thing as change There is no tomorrow that sings for the white race There is no truth, there are only versions There is nothing new under the sun There will be a sea-battle tomorrow There, but for the grace of God, go I They don't realize that we are bringing them the plague This is mine This too shall pass Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it Through confused and undefined things the mind is awakened to new discoveries

T cont. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana Time is money To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point To be governed is ... To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness To generalize means to think To marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties To name an object is to suppress three-fourths of the delight of a poem Totalitarianism and homosexuality belong together Traduttore, traditore True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms Truth is stranger than fiction Turning the other cheek U U nu Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard Ut pictura poesis V Vicious and voracious violation of volition W Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking Wanting connections, we found connections -- always, everywhere, and between everything War is the continuation of politics by other means Warts and all We all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard We are all hysterics We begin bombing in five minutes We come too late to say anything which has not been said already We hold these truths to be self-evident We learn from history that we do not learn from history We live in the best of all possible worlds We of the craft are all crazy We're tired of trees Weak people cannot be sincere Wer Menschheit sagt, will betrügen Wer will das Höchst aus Wollust mache, der krönt ein Schwein in wüster Lache Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato What I liked were absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints What a cruel, male-dominated culture What a piece of work is a man What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence What do the victims matter if the gesture is beautiful What does a woman want What does not kill me makes me stronger

W cont. What have the Romans ever done for us What history narrates is in fact only the long, heavy, and confused dream of humanity What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick What is music but organized noises What is our aim in philosophy? — To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle What is the good of criticism What makes us like new acquaintances What seems to be the officer, problem What we call "Progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance What's in a name When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me When it wants martyrs, atheism has only to say the word; my blood is ready to flow When the finger points at the moon, the foolish man looks at the finger While there is a soul in prison I am not free Who built Thebes of the Seven Gates Why can't my right hand give my left hand money Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever Wir haben es nicht gewußt With defilement we enter into the reign of terror Without the right of correspondence Women are not in the wrong when they decline to accept the rules laid down for them, since the men make these rules without consulting them. No wonder intrigue and strife abound Woo! Yeah! Words strain, crack and sometimes break,... Writing about music is like dancing about architecture Y Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans You are a little soul, carrying a corpse You are across! You are what you eat You cannot step in the same river twice You go to women? Do not forget the whip! You never miss the water till the well runs dry You should not write a book before you have heard an old sow fart You talkin' to me You will meet a tall dark stranger You'll never work in this town again! Your letter pleased me greatly Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant Z Zipless fuck ¿ ¿Qué es la razón? La locura de todos. ¿Y qué es la locura? La razón de uno Ç Ça Ira

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