Eva Heller Quotes
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Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
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I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
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No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit.".
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And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
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I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
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Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
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Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
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Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.
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In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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I'm a fighter. I'm a warrior. I'll fight anybody.
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My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.
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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
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There's no point in clinging to illusions.
