True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.
When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen _x000D_ all you have to do is take your clothes off _x000D_ and all is wiped away revealing life tenderness _x000D_ that we are flesh and breathe and are near us_x000D_ as you are really as you are I become as I_x000D_ really am alive and knowing vaguely what is_x000D_ and what is important to me above the intrusions_x000D_ of incident and accidental relationships_x000D_ which have nothing to do with my life
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.
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