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«It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.»
Author: Benjamin Britten
(Composer)
| Keywords:
Beautiful Music, cruel, disappointment, everlasting, loneliness, monotony, satisfied
«Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure»
«A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony and one-eighth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.»
Author: Susan Ohanian
| Keywords:
And One, arithmetic, Bureaucracies, bureaucracy, crisis, crisis in, eighth, eighths, epiphanies, epiphany, monotony, one-eighth, teacher, The Crisis
«I feel monotony and death to be almost the same»
«Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.»
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point
«I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Solitude
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country, Country Life, creative, Creative minds, lived, mind, monotony, noticed, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, Quiet Life, solitude, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, take notice, the country
«It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
British, British Isles, isles, monotony, the British, the British Isles
«Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, decorous, extravagant, monotony
«Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
congratulate, congratulated, congratulates, congratulating, decorous, extravagant, monotony
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