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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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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate…
— George Washington Carver
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it…
— Vincent Canby
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Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.
— Tyga
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It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting…
— Barack Obama
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After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for…
— Lisa Edelstein
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Strength, Courage, Mastery, and Honor are the alpha virtues of men all over the world. They are the fundamental virtues of men…
— Jack Donovan
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There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find…
— Joe Biden
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Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture…
— Gerhard Richter
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So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
— Jonathan Stroud
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A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving…
— G. H. Hardy
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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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