Francis Ponge famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
To justify God's ways to man.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

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