Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
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There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.
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Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another.
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