Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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