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Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
Essayist
Film Critic
Journalist
Literary Critic
Professor
Teacher
Writer
Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
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Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.
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Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
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Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
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Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.
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Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
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America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.
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Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.
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Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.
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In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.
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