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“Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.”
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“If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter pilots who also had to bomb innocents to win the war.”
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“I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.”
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“Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”
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“It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.”
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“Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core.”
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“The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil.”
Source : Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.94, Verso
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“Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point.”
Source : John Dee (2000). “The Hieroglyphic Monad”, p.9, Weiser Books
