#commonplace

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

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Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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