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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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Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”
— Jeet Thayil
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The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a…
— Marcel Proust
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Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is…
— Ray Bradbury
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Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it…
— J D Salinger
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
— Robert Burns
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