Unfashionable fashion can be made fashionable once more; unfashionable sentiments seemingly cannot.
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In these times of commodified individuals with their commodified habits (lifestyle) and habiti (fitness; cult of the body), one must mount an enormous amount of critical resistance simply in order to preserve the humanity he feels himself to have. Otherwise, his humanity will be dragged from him like a prisoner from the Bastille by the hedonistic Jacobin hordes surrounding him.
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Unlike magicians, who use mirrors to make things disappear, the contemporary American woman must use mirrors to make things appear.
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Our current mania for pharmaco-psychotherapy, in the form of a nearly universal promotion of SSRIs and related antidepressants, can only result in the death of genius. Perhaps this is why Christ delays his return -- because even He would be put on anti-depressants. Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor is today a psychopharmacologist.
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The hero may fall bravely on the field of battle, but the coward lives to cringe another day.
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