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“Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.”
Jean Baudrillard quotes

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“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”
Wallace Stevens quotes (American Poet whose work explores the interaction of reality and what man can make of reality in his mind. 1879-1955)
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“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
James Joyce quotes (Irish novelist, 1882-1941)
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“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”
Jean Baudrillard quotes

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“Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An”
Henri Matisse quotes (Artist regarded as the most important French Painter and Artist of the 20th century, 1869-1954)
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“Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”
Adrienne Rich quotes
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“A seller-sovereign economy includes sellers who are monopolistic or oligopolistic without being confronted by the ultimate consumers who are organized in monopsonistic or ologopsonistic modes. It is an economy where enormous skill, artifice, and resources are used in getting consumers to buy what the sellers want to sell, notwithstanding the availability of more efficient, safe, economical, durable, and effective alternatives, including that of buying nothing at all.”
Anesthesia Ralph Nader quotes (American Activist and Lawyer, b.1934)

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“We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom”
William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic essays. 1778-1830)

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“It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.”
George Santayana quotes (Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism. 1863-1952)
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