Noël Coward, Design for Living
"The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions."
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"The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions."
"الجنس البشري خيبة أمل يا إرنست — خيبة أمل سيئة، سيئة للغاية. وأنا أشعر بالاشمئزاز منه. يظن أنه تقدم، لكنه لم يفعل. يظن أنه ارتقى فوق الوحل البدائي، لكنه لم يفعل. إنه يتخبط فيه. لا يزال يتشبث بنا، يتشبث بشعورنا وبأعيننا وبأرواحنا. لقد اخترعنا بضعة أشياء تصدر ضجيجًا، لكننا لم نخترع شيئًا واحدًا عظيمًا يخلق الصمت. الصمت اللانهائي، الهادئ. شيء ننسدله فوقنا كغطاء ريش عملاق، شيء يخمد صوت صرخاتنا وعويلنا العاطفية ويخنق اضطراباتنا النفسية."
Noël Coward, Design for Living
"Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary."
Noël Coward, Design for Living
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