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«The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.»
«We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
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believe in, Believe It Or Not, curiosities, curiosity, deep, delight, delighting, experience, Human Touch, inside, listening, reveals, risk, sacred, spirit, spontaneous, touch, trust, valuable, wonder, worth, Worthies, worthiest, worthy
«What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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achieves, bourgeoisie, cinema, continuity, might-have-been, princes, spontaneous, vagrant, vagrants
«We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society»
«That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.»
Author: Lydia M. Child
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beseechingly, bungle, bungling, deprecate, deprecates, deprecating, imitation, imitations, moans, pines, roaring, screech, screeching, sings, spontaneous, truthful, warble, warbled, warbling, whispering
«The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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borders, Caught in The Act, Chancellors, close set, Complex system, cosmic, courts, cracks, embalm, embalming, embalms, engineers, extinct, factories, False Prophet, frozen, laws of logic, magistrates, manufacture, mineral, minerals, moldy, mysteries, net, Or logic, Prophets, reconstruct, reconstructing, revealing, scholars, set in, spontaneous, staves, syllogism, syllogisms, systems, The Net, universities, wrappings
«To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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condemn, delightful, irrespective, occupations, prizing, spontaneous, uncritical
«The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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act as, Arab, cheerfully, cheerfulness, folds, replace, silently, sit up, spontaneous, steals, steal away, tent, The Wee, voluntary, wee
«The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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dried, fascination, fascinations, rent, sap, saps, spontaneous, vein, veins
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