"I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel â€“ a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept."

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Source : Letter to Sir Horace Mann, December 31, 1769.

Horace Walpole

#Thinking Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #World Quotes

“Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.”
“This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.”
“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”
“The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.”
“Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.”
“I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.”
“If you want to direct, you've got to work.”
“This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.”

Source : "Inside Jeunet's box of tricks". Interview with Richard Mowe, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. June 13, 2014.

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