"Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality."

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Source : Michel Leiris, Richard Howard (1992). “Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

Michel Leiris

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“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.”
“Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.”

Source : Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr
“Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.”
“In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.”
“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
“In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.”

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“The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.”
“It is from the center that leaders must lead.”

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