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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to…
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We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins)…
— G. C. Berkouwer
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
— Lee Iacocca
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom,…
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To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow…
— Marcel Proust
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How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have…
— William Wilberforce
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