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Jorge Luis Borges
“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges
“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Stephen Jay Gould
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Herbert Marcuse
“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.”
Herbert Marcuse

Walter Benjamin
“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
Walter Benjamin

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