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Il faut garder quelques sourires pour se moquer des jours sans joie.


Charles Trenet

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« Gardez votre eau ...
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Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quell...
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Pouvoir faire du miel
Sans partager le destin des abeilles?
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SOPHIE DAULL N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] Il fuoco è bello da vedere. Mentre brucia, ipnotizza lo sguardo. Se riesci a contenerlo, ti fa luce...
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ANINA CIUCIU L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle...
C.G. JUNG To better to hold hands, lovers stand eyes. (Pour mieux se tenir la main, - Amoureux se tiennent les...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Si vendica, e bene, la vita, se qualcuno le ruba il mestiere.
CESARE PAVESE “You're so pretty as the apple blooms again for joy that you give. (Tu es si jolie que la pomme - ...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE You're so pretty as the apple blooms again for joy that you give. (Tu es si jolie que la pomme - Ref...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu’avez-vous fait jusqu’à présent pour la morale ?
Diderot: (sans...
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ama come se nessuno ti avesse mai ferito,
canta co...
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ALBERTO CASTOLDI À l’époque primordiale, l’homme était, en lui-même, parfaitement équilibré quant au compl�...
RENé GUéNON Tel est toujours le plaisir :
Il excite ceux qui en jouissent
Et comme un essaim d'abeille...
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CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
CHARLES BUXTON Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion hu...
CHARLES COLTON Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
CHARLES JAMES Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DEGAULLE Why did the Clinton Administration wait from 1995 to 1998 to tighten security and bolster counterint...
CHARLES BASS The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int...
CHARLES SUMNER The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
CHARLES SUMNER How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of...
CHARLES LINDBERGH We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true,...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bra...
CHARLES STUDD Because the fees associated with a reverse mortgage are high, such loans make sense only for borrowe...
CHARLES DUHIGG In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they n...
CHARLES DUHIGG Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charge...
CHARLES DUHIGG Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
CHARLES DICKENS Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;<...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...
CHARLES LAMB Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man...
CHARLES RICHARDS Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
CHARLES DICKENS If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have wri...
CHARLES MORGAN Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himse...
CHARLES BUXTON In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.
CHARLES SCHULTZ Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sor...
CHARLES DICKENS