"The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, ... Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, CÃ©sar Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. ... The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions."

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Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.

Julien Benda

#Beautiful Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Passion Quotes

“Dancing is like riding a bike.”
“I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.”

Source : Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.277, Courier Corporation
“Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.268, Broadview Press
“You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.”
“It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.”

Source : "'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.
“That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out.”
“Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.”

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