"it is a triumph of life that old……" — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

More Inessential Quotes

This quote is filed under Inessential Quotes, one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark… — Walter Benjamin
• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find… — Piero Ferrucci
• And everything else will then turn out to be unimportant and inessential except this: father, child, and love. And then,… — Pope John Paul II
• The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to… — David Riesman
• I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. — Oliver Sacks
• To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something… — John Drinkwater
• In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings… — Peter Zumthor
• There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble… — Tom Robbins
• Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. — Helmut Jahn
• Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. — Tom Robbins

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