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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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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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 am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
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I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.
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There's no point in clinging to illusions.
