On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
Interpretation
Life presents us with two distinct paths, one filled with potential and the other with suffocation.
This quote by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette reflects on the duality of life's choices, illustrating the struggle between pursuing our dreams, which captivates and inspires us, versus the oppressive nature of a reality that feels restrictive and stifling. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing the allure of possibility while acknowledging the weight of fear and limitation that can accompany our decisions.
In practice
A motivational speech about pursuing your dreams despite fear.
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
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