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«We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
commonplace, controlling, manipulated, Manipulating, subjectivity, surrendering, thrusting, thrusts, thrust out
«The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
back end, bringing, central, commonplace, conception, constitution, end point, morals, reflections, spite, studies, The central, The Turning Point, to advantage, turning point, work in
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Jobs,
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
commonplace, freshness, originally, polish
«Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.»
«The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.»
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
cheap, commonplace, commonplaces, compared, confer, conferring, confer with, pleasures, say something, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, taming, trivial
«To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| About:
Maturity
| Keywords:
commonplace, commonplaces, laugh at, maturity, stumble