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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Arthur Schopenhauer |

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Susan Sontag |

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Arthur Schopenhauer |