So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Dance in the body you have.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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