Martin Svoboda

Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
Alexandre Dumas photo
Alexandre Dumas photo

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

Alexandre Dumas libro Il conte di Montecristo

Origine: The Count of Monte Cristo

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“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090

Guy De Maupassant photo

“In fact living is dying.”

Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Origine: Bel-Ami

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“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Origine: Le Naturalisme Au Theatre

Emile Zola photo
Emile Zola photo

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎ (2006) by Larry Chang , p. 55.

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“Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Cited as attributed to Zola in The Heretic&#x27;s Handbook of Quotations : Cutting Comments on Burning Issues (1992) by Charles Bufe, p. 183, but no earlier citation has yet been located, and this appears to be very similar to remarks often attributed to Denis Diderot: &quot;Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest&quot; and &quot;Let us strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest&quot; — these are loosely derived from a statement Diderot actually did make: &quot;his hands would plait the priest&#x27;s entrails, for want of a rope, to strangle kings.&quot; <br class="br">This quote appeared in soviet popular-scientific work &quot;Satellite atheist&quot; (Sputnik ateista) http://books.google.ru/books/about/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0.html?id=Lq9AAAAAIAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y (1959), p. 491. <br class="br">Disputed

Emile Zola photo

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud!”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

As quoted in Writers on Writing‎ (1986) by Jon Winokur.
Variante: If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola frase: “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
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“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

Emile Zola libro Au Bonheur des Dames

Origine: The Ladies' Paradise

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“Never confuse movement with action.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

As quoted by Marlene Dietrich, who added "In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy." Pt. 1, Ch. 1
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Variante: Never mistake motion for action.

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“All thinking men are atheists.”

Ernest Hemingway libro Addio alle armi

Origine: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ch. 2

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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

From a set of &quot;rules for life&quot; sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner&#x27;s memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64 https://books.google.com/books?id=yYdHGtlgIsYC&amp;pg=PA64&amp;dq=hemingway+%22rules+for+life%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj-zvyfgNDMAhUJ_mMKHU6zDrYQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&amp;q=%20%22rules%20for%20life%22&amp;f=false

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“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”

Albert Camus libro Il mito di Sisifo

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Contesto: Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. <!-- 116