Kevin McAleer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'
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Only when all conceptions of space and time, life and death, are exploded, when the grip of the past and fear of the future become merely conditions of one's past, only then can one live in the present fully.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
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My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?
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A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
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It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
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