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last updated: November 28, 2023

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
-- Alfred de Musset

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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
-- Anais Nin

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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
-- Ivan Turgenev

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The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
-- Julien Benda

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 143, 1927.

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“Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.”
“Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine. It is a person, and his name is Jesus. That's the reason the Lord wants you to receive the abundance of grace, for to have the abundance of grace is to have the abundance of Jesus.”
“Tears such as angels weep.”
“The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.”
“It is the most fun Iâ€™m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, thereâ€™s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because Iâ€™m so very bad at it. Itâ€™s the greatest peace when Iâ€™m in a scene, and itâ€™s just me and the character, thatâ€™s it, thatâ€™s where I want to live my life.”
“The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.61, U of Minnesota Press
“You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?”
“In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.”
“They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.”
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”