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Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love Love Is Universe Only Adventure Develops Like Perpetual Discovery Itself Survives Conquest
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love Alone Living Complete Way Takes Them Capable Themselves Fulfill Such A Way Beings Deepest Uniting
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes
World Matters Sense Other Those Distributed More Habit He Most Fairly Than Common Common Sense Who Even Each Each One Satisfy Hardest Thing Thinks Desiring
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. Simone de Beauvoir
Life Death Time Age Old Giving Old Age Preserves Way Destiny Dimension Rather Absolute Parody Does Than Contrasted Whereas Away
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. Simone de Beauvoir
Truth Truth Is Reward Guilt Duty Sense Complexes Out Something Does Itself Defending
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. Victor Hugo
Savage Men Mountains Destroy Develop Render Forest Human Fierce Sea
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. Victor Hugo
Soul Survival Light Entitled Become Stars Synonymous Eclipse Resurrection Dawn Like Well Returns Does Provided Same Endless Nations Night
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. Victor Hugo
Nothing Live Frightful Die
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. Voltaire
Thoughts Pure Awareness Thinking Meditation Dissolution Objectification Merging Knowing Without Infinity Eternal Consciousness
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. Voltaire
Great Thoughts Words Hide Our Use
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus
Rebellion Every Innocence Essence Being Nostalgia Act Appeal Expresses
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things. Albert Camus
Man Exact Above He Failures Like Know Qualities Himself Accept How How Far Go His Hand Foretell Far Should Things Palm Defects Number
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. Alexis de Tocqueville
Health Quality Society Citizens Performed Democratic Democratic Society Private May Measured Functions
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. Alexis de Tocqueville
Great Democracy Class Men Important Rich Way Remain Most Exist Hands Same Form Should Fortunes
The one thing that matters is the effort. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Matters One Thing Effort The One Thing Thing
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Auguste Rodin
Nature Ugly Never Artist Anything
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal
God Humble Pride Before Despair Approach Ourselves Without Whom Jesus
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. Charles de Gaulle
Politics Word Politician Says Never He Taken Since Surprised His Quite Believes
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Charles de Gaulle
Silence Power Weapon Ultimate
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. Claude Chabrol
You Sometimes Statue Fact Pigeon Accept
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot
Great Soul Great Things Only Passions Elevate Things
Truth exists; only lies are invented. Georges Braque
Truth Lies Invented Only Exists
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. Guy de Maupassant
Life Worth Living Worth Living Make Encounter Lives
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. Honore de Balzac
Good Morning Marriage Husband First Never Go Awake Last Night Good Husband Sleep
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices. Jean-Paul Sartre
Nature Man Responsible His Choices Fully
We do not judge the people we love. Jean-Paul Sartre
Love People Judge Brainy Do Not Judge
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