Paul Eluard Quotes
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
Quotes to Explore
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
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We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
