"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."
-Jean Anouilh
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"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.“
-Jean Anouilh
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"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."
-Jean Anouilh
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"Nothing is irreparable in politics."
-Jean Anouilh
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"Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are."
-Jean Anouilh
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"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
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"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."
-Jean Anouilh
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-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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