“When something unexpected happens don't get annoyed, get curious.”
Paul Sloane (1950) British author and puzzle designer
“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
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Context: The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.