Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.
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I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.
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The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
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It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
