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«We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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Time
| Keywords:
conception, consumes, escaping, forgetting, nightmare, sensation, strengthens, weighed, weighed down
«Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.»
«The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.»
«Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life! Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him!»
«Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.»
«We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dread, escaping, exhilaration, for a while, Just One, masking, official, repression, social action
«The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.»
«Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.»
«Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.»
«Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping»
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