Simone Schwarz-Bart (Simone Brumant) Quotes
The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
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I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.
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I have a wonderful joy in a wonderful way and my wonderful joy has come to stay.
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The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
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NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.
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My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.
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Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
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Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
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The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.
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When you encounter some form of discrimination or maybe even worse, I urge you to alert others. Regardless of how small the incident is, it has to be brought to the attention of people like me and also the law enforcement agencies.
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To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.
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Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.
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Faith is hidden household capital.
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The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.
