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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 heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.
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A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be…
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Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone…
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But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and…
— Marcel Proust
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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past.…
— Mary Balogh
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing…
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Every time I see you I think about our past. Nothing in this world would make me go back.I never thought that…
— Unknown Author
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Always remember that you've survived things that are worse than what you're going through now. If you survived your past, nothing or…
— Sonya Parker
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Theres no much to life than that of which everything have it limited time, such things at last will surely become such…
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