Seth

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Seth’s Quotes

“By the one God, Sancho, no more proverbs.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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“The moral sense in mortals is the duty
We have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.”
― vladimir nabokov, Lolita

tags: beauty, morality, mortality

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“A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in the mask of Boheme, is a sure indication of a bourgeois mind and a deadened sense of wonder.”
― josef pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

tags: sensualism, wonder

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“The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.”
― René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning

tags: desire, memesis

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