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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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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially…
— Honore de Balzac
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade.
— Curt Goetz
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,…
— Mark Twain
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We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as…
— Friedrich Engels
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With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious…
— Unknown Author
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It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
— Joel Salatin
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I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary…
— James O. Fraser
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
— Laozi
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One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.
— Bipasha Basu
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