The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.

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"When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex."

- Jacques Lacan

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"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"

- Jacques Lacan

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"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you."

- Jacques Lacan

Love

"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."

- Jacques Lacan

Love

"There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore, I must destroy you."

- Jacques Lacan

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"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

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"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

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"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."

- Eric Sevareid

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"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

- Theodor Seuss Geisel

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"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

- G.K. Chesterton

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