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The new is not a fashion, it is a value. — Roland Barthes
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on… — David Hume
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or… — Edmund Burke
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure. — Ninon de L'Enclos
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. — Honore de Balzac
Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Novelties please less than they impress. — Charles Dickens
Human nature is fond of novelty. — Pliny the Elder
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. — Robert Bresson
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often… — Plutarch
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future. — Jill Lepore
A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. — Aristotle
Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it. — Joshua Foer
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it… — Josiah Royce
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to… — Aldous Huxley
Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being the novelty, this… — Mihail Marin
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even… — Steve Lopez
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does… — Alfred North Whitehead
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations… — David Riesman
At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon -… — Charlie Brooker
For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me, — Abigail Washburn
The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed… — Fritjof Capra
It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname… — Charles Spurgeon
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast. — Andre Maurois

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