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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…
— H.G. Wells
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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
— Honore de Balzac
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Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
— John Milton
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We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
— David Seabury
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There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only…
— Rajneesh
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
— Seneca the Younger
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Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on,…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses…
— Homer
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If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties…
— Unknown Author
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I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year,…
— Ryan Kwanten
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