"For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of a doctrine of mystery: Being or the 'well-spring' of everything is, for Heidegger, ineffable, just as what Merleau-Ponty called 'Flesh' is for him."

-- David E. Cooper

#Spring Quotes #Writing Quotes #Important Quotes

“Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.”

Source : Interview with the Financial Times, 2002.
“I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.”
“We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners.”
“In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.”

Source : Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”
“I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.”
“If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.”
“I support an all-of-the-above approach attacking climate change - everything from moving America towards being carbon-neutral, moving our country towards clean energy.”
“For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.”

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