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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the "dragon," in their eff ...
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyse, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this ...
He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the gree ...
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its ...
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their n ...
And men left down their work and came,
And women with petticoats coloured like flame.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Oh when to apprize
Is to mesmerize,
To see fall down, the Column of Gold,
Into the commonest ash.
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