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The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.


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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.



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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.



A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

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