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What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a “final” meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach.
Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
#symbols#words#language#meaning#vagueness#openness#quotes#Eco#Umberto Eco#Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
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Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.
Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
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What’s the opposite of a mirror?
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Awfully nebulous.
#crustaceansingles#comic#webcomic#single panel#cloudposting#vague#vague feeling#vagueness#happy to help
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A "gotcha question" is also known as a follow-up question. Diabolical.
Particularly useful for testing someone's ability to tell the truth.
#gotcha questions#gotcha#obfuscation#equivocation#vagueness#dishonesty#inconsistency#contradiction#religion is a mental illness
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F A H I M A 🐱🩶
#cute#cute cats#gray cats#cats of tumblr#my cat#sky#blue sky#vagueness#lovely cat#green eyes#beautiful eyes#my home#cats
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#funny#meme#memes#dank memes#funny memes#ambiguity#vagueness#what happens in vegas#What happens in vagueness
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All her grace was in her vagueness. Her voice was soft, her manner languid, her features blurred and dreamy.
Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
#The Little Friend#Donna Tartt#quote#quotes#grace#vagueness#voice#soft#manner#features#blurred#dreamy
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I would have preferred to have lunch on my own, twirl a jar of mustard round between my fingers, and be vague, vague, completely vague.
Françoise Sagan, from A Certain Smile, 1955
#françoise sagan#a certain smile#vagueness#french literature#quotes#world literature#books and libraries#literary text#dark acadamia aesthetic#classic literature#sagan
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He was some kind of man. What does it matter what you say about people?
-Tanya (Marlene Dietrich) in Touch of Evil, dir. Orson Welles (1958)
#marlene dietrich#touch of evil#orson welles#film#closing lines#conclusion#judgment#criticism#some kind of man#vagueness#type#character#indifference#ending#last words#adios
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Refusing to back down, Dr. Jordan B Peterson calls out the “woke moralists” as he deconstructs the tweet that put him in the censors' crosshairs.
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i have so much rage in me one day i think i will explode. i dont think i know how to forgive as much as i know how to forget
#art#wolfy religious tedtalks#sketch#comic#i have such a huge disconnect with my emotions and i do genuinely think a lot of it ties back to religion#crazy how that happens#whats funny is i now have a lot of people i vaguely dislike but cant remember why.#crazy what happens when you treat forgiveness like an instruction and not a process
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'Vague' is itself vague.
J. L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia
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Soon.
#dougie rambles#personal stuff#my poor attempt at a joke#unreality#fortunately#memphis#memphis tennessee#this sounded funnier in my head#nightmare fuel#shitpost#highbrow shitposting#the idol of Eirræbœ#idol of eirræbœ#Eirræbœ#Memphis pyramid#needlessly ominous#vagueness#soon
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they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes
#book 24#the conversation between the gods at the beginning there is just this#greatest hits#all i say is vicious war crimes in a vague way#and you all start frothing at the mouth like rabid dogs#a lot of yall get the memo with the blorbo tags but also. seeing quite a few strange pulls#not exactly war crimes but Ok#sometimes normal vicious crimes can just be normal vicious crimes ok guys#can yall stop tagging this as israel u guys r fucking weird….#if u see this and think it is a joke about actual fucking horrific war crimes and ethnic cleansing. u may be fucked up in the head#please be normal#will people stop commenting on this please. none of yall r funny
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sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh
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