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Blaise Cendrars has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested,…
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers…
— Samuel Rutherford
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