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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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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were…
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On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
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Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds…
— Michael J. Fox
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The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of…
— Garry Wills
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature…
— Marcel Proust
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A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and…
— William Shatner
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Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than…
— Neil Gaiman
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On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
— Gustave Flaubert
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With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of…
— H P Lovecraft
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If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves…
— Daniel Greenberg
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