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Quote by Camille Paglia
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely meta

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. – Camille Paglia

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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. – Camille Paglia

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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. – Camille Paglia

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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. – Camille Paglia

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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. – Empedocles

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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman

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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. – John Coltrane

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. – Epictetus

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