You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with...

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with...

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a...

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a...

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order...

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order...

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the...

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the...

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to...

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of...

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct...

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct...

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.