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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7321)

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You can't say history teaches us this or that it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
Amin Maalouf
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... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
Amin Maalouf
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Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
Amin Maalouf
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The identity cannot be compartmentalized it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.
Amin Maalouf
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life is not so long that one can grow tired of it
Amin Maalouf
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What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself
Amin Maalouf
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I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return
Amin Maalouf
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Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.
Amin Maalouf
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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
Amin Maalouf
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
Victor Hugo
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I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.
George M. Cohan
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
Ivor Novello
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
Terry Teachout
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
Orson Welles
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Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.
Jean Cocteau
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