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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. Blaise Pascal
Entertainment Man Business Passion Care Rest Nothing Intolerable Without Being Fully
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth. Blaise Pascal
Speak Think Minds Draw Some More Write Badly Well Without Audience Than Place Them Warm Warmth Who
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. Blaise Pascal
God He Exist Should Incomprehensible
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. Blaise Pascal
Man Thought Would Would-Be Brute He Head Conceive Feet Well Without Hands Stone Cannot
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. Blaise Pascal
Nothing Recognize Beyond Infinity Which Reason Things Last
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. Brigitte Bardot
Women Try Unhappy Liberate More Get Themselves
Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them. Brigitte Bardot
Love Me Animals Easy Betrayed Prey Throughout Never Feel Been Same Them Career
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God. Brother Lawrence
Love God Me Enough Pick Up Ground Straw
I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! Camille Claudel
Better Cause Fire Feeling Say Constant Stay Window Having Red Tower Because Bed Am Leave Umbrella Forest Walking Any Hanging Cannot Which They Say Night Set
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. Camille Pissarro
God Care Imbeciles Takes Artists Children Little Little Children
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. Camille Pissarro
Art Time Value Think Exaggerate Only Selling Forgets Regard Waste Waste Of Time
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. Camille Pissarro
Nature Mistakes Making Mistakes Deceived Must Risk Having Making Been Afraid Bold
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings. Cardinal Richelieu
Knowledge Kings Know How
The story is more important to me than the part. Catherine Deneuve
Me Important More Part Than Story
I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never. Catherine Deneuve
Life Work My Life Important Gave Able More Points Never Always Been Up Personal Different Decide Personal Things Things
I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained. Cecile de France
Experience Will Research See How Scientists Integrate Curious Explained Agnostic Tolerant Believers
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. Charles Baudelaire
Work Time Down Every Pleasure Weighed Consumes Conception Escaping Forgetting Sensation Us Means Choose Moment Let Us Strengthens Two Nightmare
What is art? Prostitution. Charles Baudelaire
Art
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. Charles Baudelaire
Giving Pleasure Bad Bad Taste Aristocratic Exhilarating Offense Taste
Progress, this great heresy of decay. Charles Baudelaire
Great Progress Decay Heresy
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Charles Baudelaire
Respect Three Poet Soldier Worthy Only Priest Know Exist Create Beings
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. Charles Baudelaire
About He Talk Himself Knows How Providing Anybody Right Amusing
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Charles Baudelaire
Time Our Sensibility Stamp Originality Nearly
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. Charles Baudelaire
Great Man Important Great Man Oneself Only Important Thing Saint Thing
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast. Charles Baudelaire
Love Greedy Baby Dream Ideal Does However End Up May Hanging Which Fat
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. Charles Hermite
Reality World Mind Creation Other Our Independent Ourselves Physical Totality Entire Entire World Only Both Divine Like Mistaken Access Am Mathematical Exists Truths Just Which
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