"One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows……" — Blaise Cendrars
"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 joy of living can sometimes hide away."
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13 Quotes by Blaise Cendrars
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Humanity lives in its fiction.
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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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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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More Corners Quotes
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy…
— Saint Augustine
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark…
— Diane Abbott
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If you're wearing smoky eye makeup, a little beige or gold pencil on the inner eye corners will open up…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can…
— Jeb Bush
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Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.
— William Shakespeare
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While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to…
— Eva Hoffman
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on…
— Sydney J. Harris
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort…
— Ze Frank
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Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
— H E Bates
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In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not.…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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