O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception – at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, ‘If you talk to her, I’ll kill you.’ It’s always rough with that high school thing.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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