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“The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.”

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Greta Garbo, born on September 18, 1905 in Stockholm, Sweden, and died on April 15, 1990, was a renowned film actress. She was celebrated in the film industry from the 1930s to the 1950s, known for her unique acting style and enigmatic persona. more

“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.”

Humans Kind Stills States Moments Faces Lost Audience Absolutes Oneself Flesh Cinema That Moment Ecstasy Human Faces Garbo

Author:Greta Garbo

“At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.”

Mind Art Ideas Together Listening Consequence Performances Theater Innovation Noise Logical Overwhelming Rome Marvelous Crowded Futurist

Author:Luigi Russolo

“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”

“Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.”

Reason Vision Highest Raised Courageous

Author:L. P. Jacks

“Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.”

Humans Character Fields Development Intellectual Human Development Intellectual Development

Author:L. P. Jacks

“The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.”

Mind Problem Passion Winning Force Social Solutions Machinery Forces Of Nature

Author:L. P. Jacks

“I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.”

Knows Way Stills Found Easy Novel Knowing Importance Unitarian

Author:L. P. Jacks

“Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.”

Mean Matter Light Spirit Existence Seeing Mystery All Things Stronger Spokes God Exists

Author:L. P. Jacks

“Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.”

Said Left Blood Creatures Letting Go Lawyer Vampire Bats Hungary Never Let Go

Book:Dorothy Forster

Source: Dorothy Forster

“It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.”

Way Kind Children Kids Easy Loses Greatness Notion Helpful Having Kids

Author:Matt Damon

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