"The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words."

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Stephane Mallarme

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“It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.”
“It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.”
“I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong.”
“Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.”

Source : Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.31, Columbia University Press
“At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.78, A&C Black
“Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.”
“Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.”
“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”

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