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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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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
— Robert Browning
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of…
— Rufus Choate
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to…
— Jonathan Swift
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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His markings, month by month, became more beautiful, lines of autumn bracken colours with shapes which reminded me of currents on a…
— Derek Tangye
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise…
— Ezra Pound
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Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Fitzgerald never got rid of anything; the ghosts of his adolescence, the failures of his youth, the doubts of his maturity plagued…
— John Aldridge
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Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking…
— Roland Lazenby
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
— Charles Sumner
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