Philippe Soupault quotes

Philippe Soupault quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It is said that love is blind. Friendship, on the other hand, is clairvoyant....”
-- Philippe Soupault

#Friendship Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Hands Quotes

“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
“Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.”
“I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a real friend, or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.”
“It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”
“The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.”

Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
“When the eternal and the human meet, that's where love is born -- not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.”
“Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.”
“People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.”
“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.”
“As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.”

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