Fin De Si C3 A8cle Quotes & Sayings

Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau's, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian obsession of the industrial revolution, and hence a reaction to triumphant naturalism, in literature at least. Nourished by medieval, Renaissance, and Romantic art, symbolism, probably the last great backward-looking movement hatched in the West, had given rise to a desire to explore the secrets of the world and the confines of the soul. Beyond its androgynous Mercuries, its pale Narcissuses, and its Orpheuses borne by rosaries of angels, it gave rise to a whole misty alchemy wherein some found their way into esotericism and even into the religious, since the Universe was only the symbol of another world into which entrance was gained not only through poetry, spiritualism, dreams, and the Ideal, but also via the play of analogies and the study of ciphers. — Claude Arnaud

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again. — Daniel Day-Lewis

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us. — Helene Cixous

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. — Jan Egeland

Love isn't like a roast turkey that is or is not ready. It simply IS, and you must let it guide you. — Judith Michael

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. — Christopher Ricks

I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside from getting fucked up and getting in trouble, that I have done consistently throughout my entire life. — James Frey

Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn't I try it ages ago? — Steve Hockensmith

Instead of playing Draw Something, fucking draw something — Nick Offerman

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business. — Carly Fiorina

Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you. — Auliq Ice

I am an idea in an era that has no more of them. — Jean Lorrain