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The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
George Sand
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
Blaise Pascal
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
Anatole France
The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)
Alphonse Karr
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.
Hector Berlioz
In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
Voltaire
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor Hugo
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
Voltaire
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valéry
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas
Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.
Pierre Beaumarchais
The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words the greater the profit.
François Fénelon
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
La Rochefoucauld
Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Stendhal
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.
Jean Giono
Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
Voltaire
The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.
Jacques-Binigne Bossuet
We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.
La Rochefoucauld
All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books.
Voltaire
I do not know any reading more easy more fascinating more delightful than a catalogue.
Anatole France
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.
Marcel Proust
Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Jean Cocteau
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
Joseph Joubert
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
Alexis de Tocqueville
She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
Diane de Poitiers
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel Montaigne
What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.
Charles Baudelaire
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honoré de Balzac
The first step my son which one makes in the world is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Voltaire
It is the beginning of the end.
Talleyrand
In bed we laugh in bed we cry And born in bed in bed we die The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.
Isaac De Benserade
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
Napoleon
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de l'Enclos
Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tablecloth left awry in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.
Voltaire
Art for art's sake.
Victor Cousin
A work of art is an exaggeration.
André Gide
Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.
Edgar Degas
Art upsets science reassures.
Georges Braque
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
Joseph Joubert
It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.
Marcel Duchamp
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert
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