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Blaise Cendrars has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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, the corners…
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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 life. It…
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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 too pretentious,…
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For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism…
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Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.…
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose…
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Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out…
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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 good deal…
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My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame…
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Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait
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Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions…
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The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to…
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England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal…
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