Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions."
Banality quotes
Banality
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Boris Pasternak
Poet, Novelist
"He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities."
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life."
Machado de Assis
Writer
"In woman sex corrects banality, in men it aggravates it."
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"... love is banality to all outsiders."
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"Banality is sometimes striking."
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