Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
Rene CharRead
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
Interpretation
Every action we take can be considered new and unique, regardless of repetition.
Rene Char's quote emphasizes the idea that each action, even if repeated, holds its own integrity and freshness. This perspective encourages individuals to approach each experience with a sense of novelty and possibility, recognizing that the context and mindset can alter the way we perceive our actions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change, someone might use this quote to inspire people to see their daily tasks as new opportunities.
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
How did writing come to me? Like birdβs down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
A poem is the realization of love. . . .
How can we live without the unknown before us?
It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.
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