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But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
Jacques Lacan
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
Boris Pasternak
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When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
Wright Morris
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It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.
Andre Breton
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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.
Robert Irvine
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Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.
Drew Carey
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Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
Roland Barthes
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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
Anais Nin
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Nate Silver
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As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.
Clarence John Laughlin
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There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.
Joel Stein
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Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.
Bryant H. McGill