"The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man."

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Source : 1954 An Autobiography, ch.1.

Edwin Muir

#Men Quotes #Performances Quotes

“Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.”

Source : Sir Edwin Arnold (1893). “The Light of the World, Or, The Great Consummation”
“Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.”

Source : Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
“In quick succession, Qhuinn reviewed his answers: No, of course not, the knife was acting of its own volition. I was actually trying to stop it...No, I only meant to give him a shave...No, I didn't realize that slicing open someone's jugular was going to lead to death.”
“It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.”
“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”
“Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.
“Seek freedom within action.”

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