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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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A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this."…
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People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.
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Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness…
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Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a…
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What is best and most necessary usually happens.
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We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think…
— Marcel Proust
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The probable is what usually happens.
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This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal…
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Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in…
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time…
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was…
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