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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of ph...   Art
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor...  
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse a...  
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or ...  
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanin...  
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the on...  
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.  
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic betw...