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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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No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived…
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I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have…
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Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
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He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example…
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My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came…
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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it…
— James Joyce
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We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings…
— Khalil Gibran
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I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who…
— Roger Zelazny
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My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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My cheek stung and throbbed. I remained on the floor of the cave. Belen stood between me and Kerrick. "...temper in check.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings…
— Kahlil Gibran
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