Against Nature's silence I use action In the vast indiffere… - Peter Weiss

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Against Nature's silence I use action
In the vast indifference I invent a meaning
I don't watch unmoved I intervene
and say that this and this are wrong
and I work to alter them and improve them
The important thing
is to pull yourself up by your own hair
to turn yourself inside out
and see the whole world with fresh eyes

Peter Weiss

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Peter Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German-born Swedish writer, painter and filmmaker.

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Native Name: Peter Ulrich Weiss

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The important thing
is to pull yourself up by your own hair
to turn yourself inside out
and see the whole world with fresh eyes

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W. H. Auden Rudyard Kipling Bertolt Brecht T. S. Eliot Leonard Cohen

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