People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.
Guillaume ApollinaireRead
One day/_x000D_ One day I waited for myself/_x000D_ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/_x000D_ So I could know just who I am/_x000D_ I who know others.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a journey of self-discovery and introspection.
In this quote, Apollinaire expresses the importance of self-reflection and the quest for personal identity. He highlights the moment when he realized it was time to turn inward and explore his own being, suggesting that knowing oneself is as crucial as knowing others, which illuminates the tension between external perceptions and internal truths.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Apollinaire reflects, we all must face ourselves to truly understand who we are.'
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure_x000D_ _x000D_ Les jours s'en vont je demeure
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
What seest thou else_x000D_ _x000D_ In the dark backward and abysm of time?
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale.
Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
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