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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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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
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I'm not looking for much, I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job... and the…
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…
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St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
— Horace Mann
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I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had…
— Joan Didion
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The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he…
— Marcel Proust
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In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t.…
— Francesca Lia Block
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He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the…
— Kim Harrison
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Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.
— Kim Harrison
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The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and…
— Jonathan Stroud
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