Stupidity Quotes by Blaise Cendrars

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness…

— Blaise Cendrars

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

— Blaise Cendrars

“and only much later, when Mascha wanted a child, did I realize that love is a deadly poison, a vice, a vice that one…

— Blaise Cendrars

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow.…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Feelings flake off and fall in dust. The senses, vitrified, can no longer experience pleasure; they crack at the least provocation. Each of us,…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Do not forget that when the heart petrifies there is no progress. All science must be like a fruit, so ordered that it may…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Each of us attempted to stem & hold fast the unending flood of his thoughts which tended to trickle off into that inner void.…

— Blaise Cendrars

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still…

— Blaise Cendrars

Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.

— Blaise Cendrars

“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of action itself,…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Modern man has a need for simplification that tends to find its expression one way or another. And this artificial monotony which he takes…

— Blaise Cendrars