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Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.


Octavio Paz

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JOSEPH CONRAD Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
LEON TROTSKY Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
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BERNARD CORNWELL Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
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ELIZABETH WINDER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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CARLOS FELFOLDI The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
AMIT KALANTRI Life's irony;Even the almighty love has its own time to reign.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and ...
MARK POTOK Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
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JEANETTE CORON Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
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CASSANDRA CLARE Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
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FRANCINE RIVERS Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expr...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's...
STEVEN WEBER The irony of it all is that, while most people don't want to die, generally, those same people want ...
E. CLAIRE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between wha...
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SUSAN C. YOUNG When I'm 33, I quit.
MICK JAGGER The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
SOL LEWITT It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly hera...
RON WYDEN To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
ANATOLE BROYARD Life's irony;Most ladies love the words;fashion & relationship,more than their own names.
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SUFJAN STEVENS A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony...
JOYCE CAROL OATES In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
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SOLON Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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CAITLIN MORAN A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app...
JESSAMYN WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ap...
JESSAMYN WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to ap...
JESSAMYN WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app...
JESSAMYN WEST Life's irony; The most competitive industry in life is religion.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The very word perfection is full of flaw,because it can't exist. Or is that what perfection is? Flaw...
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
JOSS WHEDON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemp...
ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES 1712-1778 Life's irony;Imperfect man is always looking for perfection in another.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The irony is that this inward orientation doesn't ensure survival. In fact, it guarantees the opposi...
CRAIG COCHRAN We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV it was all too post-post-m...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV - it was all too post-post...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV — it was all too post-pos...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism...
BRANDO SKYHORSE Life's irony;Even the terrorist keep body guards,for they willfully terminate other people's lives,b...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a libr...
ERIC IDLE To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
ISAK DINESEN This is a very rough time for us, but we must obey the law and the rule of law.
ARMANDO GUTIERREZ A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to...
SHANNON L. ALDER I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
MARJANE SATRAPI When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is ju...
J.C. MARINO When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Life's irony;Defeat is the victory that the fearful expect.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Irony is wasted on the stupid
OSCAR WILDE The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regula...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Life's Irony;Its only in defeat you will know the person with a heart of victory.
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BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Irony is that stronger person is consider as weaker sex in our world.
ANUJ SOMANY Dedication is the preparation to success!
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MARK BRAY I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the ir...
ZACK SNYDER Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
ELIZABETH BIBESCO Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH ASQUITH BIBESCO Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
TED CRUZ My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
MARK HADDON Life's irony;Behind all the facades in most religious houses is just one thing,"please do quickly fo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) That is very dangerous, ... in an absolutely legal way and in accordance with the wording of the law...
VACLAV HAVEL Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
NATHANIEL WING No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
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