"A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden……" — Blaise Cendrars
"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 that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream."
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Blaise Cendrars
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13 Quotes by Blaise Cendrars
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Humanity lives in its fiction.
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One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious,…
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I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me…
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For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is…
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Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit,…
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a…
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Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted…
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I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
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Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a…
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My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the…
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Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait
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what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action,…
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