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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 star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there…
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I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this…
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Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’…
— Steven Galloway
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Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you…
— John Frusciante
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One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to…
— David Simon
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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad…
— Zoe Saldana
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There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.
— Smokey Robinson
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With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye,…
— Margot Kidder
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
— Mattie Stepanek
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last…
— Marcel Proust
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A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more…
— William Shakespeare
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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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