... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
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There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.
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He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice about either one.
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A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
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Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess of words, not events. The surface of the texts, the sound of the words, point to themselves as manufactured, as illusion. The decadents attempted to create texts that announced themselves as artifice.
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There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter an act.
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