Hugo Claus famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
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Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
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My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
-- Hugo Claus
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.
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I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.
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I can't wake up at all without caffeine.
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Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.
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You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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