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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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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts…
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We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most…
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A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to…
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We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than…
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and…
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Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero…
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