"It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession."

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Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Passion Quotes #Fortune Quotes #Said Quotes

“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”

Source : "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.
“The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.”

Source : "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2007.
“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”

Source : "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.
“There is no hope of joy except in human relations.”
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
“When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.”
“To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.”
“The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.”

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