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 eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.
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There's no point in clinging to illusions.
