"How slow life is, how violent hope is."

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Source : Guillaume Apollinaire (2015). “Selected Poems: with parallel French text”, p.17, OUP Oxford

Guillaume Apollinaire

#Life Is Quotes #Violent Quotes

“But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.”
“Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.”
“The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.”
“I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.”
“I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university. The lights were on in the architecture school when I got out of rehearsal at night. And I thought the men were handsome.”

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“Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.”
“While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.”
“You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.”

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