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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 yawn is a silent shout.
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Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost…
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One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
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In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.
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I don’t know how you look at the inside of your head — what metaphor you choose — but for those of…
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed;…
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss…
— Hugh Miller
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We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes…
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Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is…
— Marcel Proust
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There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with…
— Sri Chinmoy
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There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.
— Joseph Heller
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