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To become human is to become — to turn into — someone. Wrestle with what you were at birth, with nature, with instinct, I’m order to construct your humanity. This is the true sense of the word “education”: its purpose is to lead the child out of the semi-vegetative immediacy of its animal existence, to give it a human form, through the learning of language, the arts, sciences.
— Aug 24, 2022 12:28AM
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Why does he [Philippe Petit] put up with the unbearable when nothing forced him to? The answer is in the question: because nothing and nobody forces him to: ‘I believe the whip is necessary only when it is held by the student, not the teacher.’ And he goes on: ‘The glory of suffering does not interest me.’
— Sep 04, 2022 12:55AM
Itamar
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André Breton tells us that before taking a nap, 'Saint-Pol-Roux used to hang a sign on the door of his country house saying “POET AT WORK”.’
— Sep 03, 2022 06:51AM
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Alain: 'If you deprive yourself of sleep, you deprive yourself of waking. Someone who doesn’t sleep enough is literally poisoned by its own restlessness. Someone who has slept is washed clean.’
— Aug 28, 2022 10:46PM
Itamar
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It was during this encounter that he [Monsieur Descartes] came to realise the impression that can be created by boldness that on other occasions might be simply seen as mere sabre-rattling.
— Aug 23, 2022 10:42AM
Itamar
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During a certain period of his life, Picasso would get up each morning quite certain that he had painted his last ever painting the previous day. Convinced he would never paint again, he could allow himself, in the evening, to be possessed by a frenzy of painting.
— Aug 23, 2022 10:33AM
