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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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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
— Marcel Proust
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or…
— Unknown Author
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All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like…
— Andre Bazin
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a…
— Lewis Mumford
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature…
— William J. Clinton
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Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
— Edward Abbey
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Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold…
— Unknown Author
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Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people,…
— Friedrich Engels
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