"The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy."

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Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

Djuna Barnes

#Curves Quotes #Joy Quotes #Unendurable Quotes

“Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.”
“We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.”
“Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is”
“The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges.”
“If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.”
“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it”

Source : Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”
“Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human.”

Source : John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.104, University of Washington Press
“Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.”

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