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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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We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
— Edgar Wilson Nye
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush…
— Alistair Cooke
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In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces.…
— Mother Teresa
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
— J. B. Priestley
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and…
— Michael Kinsley
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My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.
— Robin Tunney
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They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples…
— Clara Bow
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Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
— Albert Payson Terhune
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
— George Bernard Shaw
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There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy…
— Unknown Author
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves…
— Pablo Picasso
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The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians…
— Brennan Manning
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