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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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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our…
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Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
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There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and…
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In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every…
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Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming.…
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Creativity permeates the cosmos. It is the driving force that sustains the particles, the stars and galaxiesit surges through the body with…
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon…
— Christopher Reeve
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I send the fire of Pentecost that all of those who are the devotees of the avatars of this world and the…
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