Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes
I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.
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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.
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This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
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I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
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When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order
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I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.
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To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art.
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.
