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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. Andre Maurois
Game Soul Age Too Late Old Evil Finished Wrinkles Hair Feeling Stage Old Age White Too Late Weakening Indifference Rising More Generations True Than Far Body Belongs
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Day Man Words Important Calm Tree Fragmentary Analysis Alive Destructive Self Fade Come Becomes Sound His Truly Done Again Whole Grows Things Beloved Night
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wisdom You Yourself Give More Than Receive
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. Blaise Pascal
Man Some Some Things Beyond Supreme Show Reason Function Things
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. Catherine Deneuve
Man Woman Sense Of Humor Intelligence Be Kind Humor Sense Kind Charm Qualities Intelligent Same Require
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire
Wife Wine Bottle Sweetheart
Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire
Genius Will Childhood Recalled
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. Coco Chanel
Women World Strong Mother Men Longing Down Seeking Put Heads Heads Down Always Pillow Been Infants Little Them Held Who
It is always better to be slightly underdressed. Coco Chanel
Better Slightly Always
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. Coco Chanel
Luxury Otherwise Must Comfortable
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. Edgar Degas
Difficulty Everyone Talent Fifty Twenty-Five
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. Emile Zola
Truth You Will Underground Up Bury Grow Shut Shut Up
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Eugene Ionesco
Death Fear Sadness Political Vice Versa Pain Living Society Our System Has-Been Able Abolish Absolute Deliver Versa Been Condition Political System Human Vice Human Condition Social Us Thirst
To good and true love fear is forever affixed. Francois Rabelais
Love True Love Good Fear True Forever
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good People Good Deeds Our Saw Would Frequently Motives Ashamed Them Produced Deeds
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great Relationship Fans Wind Increases Diminishes Great Ones Absence Fires Passions Candles Mediocre
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat
Life Property Liberty Made Men First On The Contrary Laws Fact Make First Place Because Caused Exist Existed Beforehand Contrary Place
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. Georges Braque
Art You Valuable Valuable Thing Only Cannot Explain Thing
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert
Democracy Stupidity Proletarian Dream Attained Bourgeois Whole Level Raise
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. Henri Matisse
Art Only Between Difference Paint Things
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. Henri Matisse
Success Style Prisoner Reputation Must Never Himself Artist Etc Should
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. Henri Poincare
Reflection Doubt Believe Everything Solutions Both Equally Convenient Dispense Necessity Two
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. Honore de Balzac
Art Eye See Could Hand Paint
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Hope Great Man Old Before Phrase Only Never Same Literal Boat Meaning Sea Now
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Change Fault Will Face Greed Our Way Insect Willing Disappear Globe Go Replaced
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. Jean-Paul Sartre
Way Defined Victims Them Fascism Number
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