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- Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they…
- To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
- To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things...
- . . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no…
- Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when…
- I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are…
- It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and…
- ..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that…
- Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged…
- I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their…
- As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to…
- Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both…
- Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt