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- My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly…
- Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you…
- You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more…
- what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually…
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- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find… — Paul Auster
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. — Francis Bacon
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac
- The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron,… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man… — Alexander Graham Bell
- India is a country in which every great religion finds a home. — Annie Besant