"A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping."

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Source : "Fictional character: Le captaine de Boeldieu". "La Grande Illusion", www.imdb.com. 1937.

Pierre Fresnay

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“The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
“What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .”
“We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.”
“I love making object form; I wish I was doing more of it. I admire the research of my colleagues, and sometimes it makes me sad when their beautiful work - the deep dives into formal research and nuances of geometry and so on - ends up circling in more and more circumscribed contexts. I wish they were more powerful. It's not a modern proposition. Active form doesn't kill object form. I want my students to have all those skills related to geometry, shape, measure, scale, etc., plus skills for using space to manipulate power in the world.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We should all start to live before we get too old.”
“You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?”
“The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.”
“What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?”

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