"To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible."

-- Irvin D. Yalom

#Mean Quotes #Care Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.”
“No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.”
“I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 2, 2006.
“Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness”
“I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.”
“The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.”
“There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.”
“Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.”

Source : "Willem Dafoe: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2012.

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