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«The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| Keywords:
artistic, art critic, contemplating, critic, detach, detaching, literary, Literary Art, literary critic, literary work, specific, The Critic, work of art
«An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.»
«Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attachment, attained, detached, detaching, fabricator, illusions
«There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
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Journalism
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detached, detaching, higher law, journalism, To Tell the Truth
«Inside Out was the first band I ever fronted. I channeled all my pain through that band. It was about completely detaching ourselves from society to see ourselves as...as spirits, and not bowing down to a system that sees you as just another pebble on a beach. But what Inside Out went through were a ton of lineup changes.»
«Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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anatomies, Assyrian, Assyrians, carving, carvings, detached, detaching, emperors, e mail, first of all, hack, hacking, hacks, human anatomy, human ear, human head, mail, mailed, mailing, mails, neatly, noses, nostril, nostrils, On the Level, parcels, parcel out, sending
«There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.»
«Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
detached, detaching, eyed, informed, mystic, open-eyed, resignation, sham, shams
«All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
detach, detaching, family, humanity, indivisible, One Family, One of Us, responsible, responsible for, The Others, undivided, wickedest
«The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy. But if we detach its movements from that ultimate idea, if we do not see the infinite rest and only see the infi»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
detach, detaching, Movements, poem, realized
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