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Not who you're looking for? Others named Divine: American actor, singer and drag queen (1945–1988) · girl group · song performed by Girls' Generation · family name
“In divine works, everything, even obstacles, are means.”
“What moments divine, what rapture serene.”
“Anything divine must come to us in worldly clothing, and so it comes to us altered. The divine is like rain striking the earth, and all our efforts at godliness are therefore muddy—all but those few seconds of complete inundation, the moments that the mystics describe, when we are nothing but rain.”
“Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.”
“You seem, Antiphon, to imagine that happiness consists in luxury and extravagance. But my belief is that to have no wants is divine; to have as few as possible comes next to the divine; and as that which is divine is supreme, so that which approaches nearest to its nature is nearest to the supreme.”
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Divine is a 1935 French drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Simone Berriau, George Rigaud and Gina Manès. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location in Hyeres. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Gotko and Robert Gys.
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