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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 do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
— Marcel Proust
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is…
— Nicholas Sparks
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When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it…
— F. Matthias Alexander
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The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They…
— Steven Pinker
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This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.
— Chaka Fattah
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We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.
— Robbie Keane
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Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is…
— James Cameron
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To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have…
— N. T. Wright
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God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?
— N. T. Wright
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Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is…
— Joan D. Vinge
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It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far,…
— Howard Berman
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Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions…
— Daniel Dae Kim
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