Quotes
Authors
Pascal Bruckner

"By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life."

Source : "Perpetual Euphoria On the Duty to Be Happy". Book by Pascal Bruckner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

Pascal Bruckner

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“Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they're not necessarily going to anybody's church. It's not like the world is becoming hardcore, Richard Dawkins-atheist, but people are looking to sort of synthesize science - people love science, especially the millennials.”

Source : "Doctor Strange Advisor Explains the Science Behind Marvel's Multiverse". Interview with Screenrant, screenrant.com. March 2, 2017.
“A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.”
“That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.”
“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”
“He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.”
“Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.”
“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”
“Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.”

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