Paul Verlaine Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
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Art matters.
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When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.
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Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...
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But so fair,She takes the breath of men awayWho gaze upon her unaware.
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Under which head do you class those who are at sea?
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Monsieur … I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
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A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.
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Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.
