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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Quotes
On identity, openness and staying true to yourself.
This set of quotes explores what it means to simply be: holding onto a child's spontaneity, embracing honesty that feels inappropriate in creative work, or aging with flexibility instead of resistance. For more on self-belief, see our Able quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Rude
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
- Derive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
- Fleeting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
- Despised
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
- Nov 07, 2020
My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020