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Intellectual Inspirational Quotes (738)

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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
Dante Alighieri
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett
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The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world you want to blow it up.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things
Dante Alighieri
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Dante Alighieri
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett
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I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?
Samuel Beckett
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Naguib Mahfouz
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
Dante Alighieri
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
Samuel Beckett
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The well heeded well heard.
Dante Alighieri
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The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
Samuel Beckett
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
Dante Alighieri
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And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.
Samuel Beckett
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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Before you come alive, life is nothing it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
Dante Alighieri
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The absurd man will not commit suicide he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” of the condemned man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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