Quotes and Sayings About Waking Life
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Premie' re approximation: j'e cris pour de truire, en les de crivant avec pre cision, des monstres nocturnes qui menacent d'envahir ma vie e veille e. First general point: I write to destroy, by describing exactly the nocturnal monsters that threaten to invade my waking life.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet -
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing
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Work and love these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.
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Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
-- Jim WoodringSource : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.
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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
-- Laurie LeeSource : Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
-- Rene Magritte
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Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.”
Source : Source: www.elle.com
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“The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.”
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“Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.”
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“The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.”
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“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”