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GéRARD DE NERVAL I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An im...
GéRARD DE NERVAL Sleep occupies a third of our life. It is the consolation to the woes of our days or the woe of thei...
GéRARD DE NERVAL Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set f...
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GéRARD DE NERVAL Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
GéRARD DE NERVAL Man, free thinker!
Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in ...
GéRARD DE NERVAL They [farm owners] have not chemically treated the pit before dumping the birds.
BIJAY KUMAR Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.
JULIAN BARNES All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of th...
MARCEL PROUST I look forward to the day when a Mongolian idiot, treated bio-chemically, becomes a successful genet...
JEROME LEJEUNE Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the par...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part th...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part t...
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RENEE FREDRICKSON After that second quarter surge, the kids did a nice job of battling back.
DAVE STEPHENS This man's life has been turned upside down in the way Bristol Township has treated him. Bristol Tow...
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GERARD BURG Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty toge...
SYLVIA PLATH This function has always been treated like a stepchild.
BOB KESSLER Everybody has memories of the zoo from their childhood. Your zoo is still here.
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HERBERT LAU After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
EVA GABOR I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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KAREN SALMANSOHN The essence of the text was: You get the painting back when peace has been achieved between Israel a...
JIM MARGOLIN My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good...
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NEAL SHUSTERMAN Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through di...
OSCAR WILDE I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o...
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CARL GUSTAV JUNG He's a guy whose been through a lot more experiences than playing baseball.
MIKE GOEDDE Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) We have all had someone whose life has been touched.
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GIANCARLO STANTON Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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BARBARA COSTIKYAN Sarah really hit some big shots for us,. It was close midway through the second half. Meredith had a...
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ERIC WILSON They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
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CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Everyone who has been identified as a close contact has been treated. Those people who are at risk a...
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VIKRANT PARSAI Triggers are like little psychic explosions that crash through avoidance and bring the dissociated, ...
CAROLYN SPRING He got banged in the head pretty bad midway in the second period, so he got kind of dizzy, but he ca...
BRIAN LEE It's not too much pressure. That's what we drafted him for. You throw him in early, and you hope tha...
CHARLES WOODSON Everything was going good till the time you were in my life(Childhood).The happiness once you gave m...
NARESH JELLA We bought this house in '73 and all their childhood memories are tied up with this house. They reall...
DONA STEPHENS Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you ...
JENNIFER E. SMITH Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside...
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MICHEL GONDRY The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I beli...
CHARLES DICKENS This unforgettable pain of grieving memories is like an agonizes disease that ripples through life w...
BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭　ベーゼル) While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges th...
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ROBERT ZUBRIN My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
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KENDALL JENNER Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having rea...
JOHN UPDIKE Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having rea...
JOHN UPDIKE Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
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OSCAR WILDE Yes, she was treated differently. She was treated better by my parents than she's been treated her w...
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NEIL GAIMAN I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration c...
GEORGE TAKEI It is therefore perfectly plausible that memories of childhood sexual abuse could be buried for year...
MOHEB COSTANDI get life back to order. We've been through a lot.
DAVID MITCHELL Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pa...
DANTE ALIGHIERI A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
LUCIUS ACCIUS TELEPHUS The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever fo...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS like Jack the Ripper calling for more neighborhood patrols because of the surge in victims.
PATRICK LEAHY Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasa...
HOMARO CANTU The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ...
MARTIN JACQUES Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and defer...
ANTOINE HALFF While only a rag doll with a few red yarn strands of hair, she has been loved for generations. Paren...
MARIANNE SZYMANSKI Her memory was awful after she'd been drinking, like a broken film reel. Whole segments of time were...
JACK JORDAN When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outsid...
SIMONE WEIL My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
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JONATHAN TUCKER My parents have long been gone, but it brings back very fond memories of coming home after school, a...
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DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
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DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
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INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE My trade and art is to live.
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS Obscurity is the realm of error.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS One can not be just if one is not humane.
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LUC DE CLAPIERS Patience is the art of hoping.
LUC DE CLAPIERS All grand thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS One promises much, to avoid giving little.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Great thoughts come from the heart.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES DE MILLE I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for severa...
REBECCA DE MORNAY I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets ...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like find...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it freque...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought &...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a grea...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what t...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies...
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND