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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
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beauty
truth
breakfast-of-champions
sometimes
kurt-vonnegut
symbols
symbol
symbolism
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.
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symbols
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Haruki Murakami |
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
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past
life
symbols
looking-back
path
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Jodi Picoult |
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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
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myth
omens
symbols
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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No symbols where none intended.
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symbols
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Samuel Beckett |
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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
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symbols
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Gene Wolfe |
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -- not an invitation for hypnosis.
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television
mass-media
symbols
images
reflection
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Umberto Eco |
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When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi , but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially sympathized with some of the early European fascist movements, he wanted to express his repudiation of Hitlerism (or 'the Hun,' as he would perhaps have preferred to say), and wanted no part in tainting the ancient Indian rune by association. In its origin it is a Hindu and Jainas symbol for light, and well worth rescuing.
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1945
adolf-hitler
fascism-in-europe
swastikas
rudyard-kipling
hinduism
symbols
nazis
world-war-ii
england
fascism
europe
school
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Their message will never be decoded, not only because there is no key to it, but also because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.
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myth
history
past
czech
signs
decode
enigma
symbols
messages
forgetting
novel
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Milan Kundera |
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Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
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symbols
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Thomas C. Foster |
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Existuje jeste jeden dalsi rozdil mezi logikou zjevneho a skryteho vypraveni. Ve zjevnem vypraveni existuje logicka kauzalni souvislost mezi vnejsimi udalostmi. Jonas chce plout pres more, protoze chce uteci pred Bohem, usne, protoze je unaven, je vrzen pres palubu, protoze je povazovan za pricinu boure a je pozren rybou, protoze se v mori vyskytuji drave ryby. Jedna udalost vyplyva z predchazejici. (Posledni cast pribehu je sice nerealisticka, ale nikoliv nelogicka.) Ve skrytem pribehu naproti tomu vladne jiny druh logiky. Ruzne udalosti jsou asociaci spojeny se stejnym vnitrnim zazitkem. To, co se jevi jako kauzalni posloupnost vnejsich udalosti, vlastne zastupuje spojeni zazitku propojenych jako udalosti vnitrni. Je to prave tak logicke, jako je logicky zjevny pribeh, ale jede tu o jiny druh logiky.
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fromm
symbols
psychology
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Erich Fromm |
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Their message will never be decoded... because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when the accumulation of messages old and new is such that their voices cancel one another out. Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of painting and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.
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myth
history
past
czech
signs
decode
enigma
symbols
messages
forgetting
novel
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Milan Kundera |
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"It has been said that the first black presidency was mostly "symbolic," a dismissal that deeply underestimates the power of symbols. Symbols don't just represent reality but can become tools to change it."
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symbols
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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Not only was the constellation of Orion part of the Moundville story [of Native Americans], not only was a journey to the realm of the dead part of it, too, but now I knew also that a series of trials would have to be faced on that journey, that the Milky Way was involved and, last but by no means least, that Moundville itself had been thought of as an image, or copy, of the realm of the dead on earth. Every one of these were important symbols, concepts, and narratives in the ancient Egyptian funerary texts that I'd been fascinated by for more than 20 years. It would be striking to find even two of them together in a remote and unconnected culture, but for them all to be present in ancient North America in the same way that they were present in ancient Egypt, and serving the same ends, was a significant anomaly.
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orion
narratives
symbols
realm
trials
legacy
journey
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Graham Hancock |