Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
