"For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies……" — Blaise Cendrars
"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 in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number."
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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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A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to…
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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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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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