Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Tom Stoppard 116
British playwright 1937Related quotes
Jaques, Act II, scene vii.
Variant: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)
Variant: Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Source: Carmilla
“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”
Angelina Jolie
(1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
Simone de Beauvoir
(1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), p. 201
Context: What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.
