Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a sequence by Mareel Duchamp derived from his eubistic painting "Nude Descending the Stairway," and Alexander Calder and Dave Diamond have a hand in other portions. The dream I found most interesting, if only for its simple, washroom symbolism, was Mr. Richter's "Nareissus" though to identify oneself with any particular dream is dangerously revealing, I suppose...
...There is such a thing as being too unwilling to commit oneself to a course of action. But it is my own conviction that for every man in a position of responsibility today who sins because of his over-judicious approach, there are nine who are neither helping themselves nor the nation by accepting slogans as realities and jumping at conclusions...
...precisely when things seemed worst, people began to pull themselves together. Tarrou organized a group of volunteers to combat the plague. Rambert, on the eve of his escape, chose to remain and fight; he had learned that in such times "it may be shameful to be happy by oneself." Grand abandoned his perfect sentence and Father Paneloux his religious fatalism. It was not a question of heroism; people hardly had enough freedom of choice to be heroic. They simply decided to do what they could, even if their resistance was absurd. And perhaps, suggests Camus, to continue upholding...
...with the 18th or 17th Century than the present one. The workmanship was much better in Bach's time than it is now. One had first to be a craftsman. Now we have only talent. We do not have the absorption in detail, the burying of oneself to be resurrected a great musician...
...powerful means for achieving true happiness," noted candid young Leo Tolstoy in his diary, "[is] to spread out from oneself, in every direction, like a spider, a whole spider's web of love, and to catch in it everything that comes along-whether it is an old woman or a child, a girl or a policeman...