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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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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities,…
— Albert Camus
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and…
— John Macmurray
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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…
— Marcel Proust
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Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
— Owen Feltham
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
— John Webster
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