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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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Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!
— Pope Urban II
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single…
— Charles Babbage
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Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the…
— Paul Washer
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
— Sigmund Freud
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging…
— Parmenides
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There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is…
— Parmenides
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In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one…
— Carl Jung
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Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society,…
— Bhagat Singh
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.
— Francois Delsarte
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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and…
— Gilbert Highet
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