There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin
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It's what we want to see. ABINAS CHOPDAR A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest boso... DR. GREGORY Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ... DORTHEA LANGE We are not prepared to open up more our economies without negotiations which will give us access to ... FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO Mother Nature is relentless and forward. When we do not live according to her laws she rewards us wi... NANCY S. MURE One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or... KURT VONNEGUT What is important is that our forces are vigilant about all these. We are watching continuously. We ... GENEROSO SENGA Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with ... ERIC HOFFER We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society f... 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ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader. ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that ha... CHARLES-AUGUSTE DE BERIOT Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, n... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necess... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS That which is not worth speaking they sing.
[Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Everything ends with songs.
[Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.] PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are!
[Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.] PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. AUGUSTE VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM