We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
— Jean Cocteau · Explain
The World Motivation
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
— Jean Cocteau · Explain
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.
Often parents themselves will not have liked education and may not have done well in education. But actually we need to explain to them what education can do for children.
All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.
It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.