Paul Claudel Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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There always have been funny women.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.
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I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
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You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
