Georges Rouault Quotes
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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If you look at the better teams in the league when they get a team down they finish out the game. That's kind of what separates us from those teams right now is playing 48-minute games.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
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The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.
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The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
