Blaise Cendrars Quotes

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• Humanity lives in its fiction.
• One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the…
• A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me…
• 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. Prose…
• For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent…
• Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes…
• Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies…
• Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp…
• I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
• Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love…
• My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe
• Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait
• what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected to every possible…

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