“ The national characteristics… the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro. ”
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“ Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? ”
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“ Yes, one day I found myself writing down with trembing fingers the four words with which every storyteller since the world began has staked his slender claim to the attention of his fellowmen. Words which presage simply the old story of an artist coming of age. I wrote: 'Once upon a time... ”
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“ You see, nothing matters except pleasure which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect. ”
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“ I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. ”
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“ The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether." These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion. ”
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“ I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. ”
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“ We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ”
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“ We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ”
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“ The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. ”
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“ For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfill it in its true potential — the imagination. ”
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“ Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will — whatever we may think. ”
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“ Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will — whatever we may think. ”
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“ History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ”
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“ A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ”
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“ There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. ”
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“ There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. ”
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“ The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ”
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“ Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. ”
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“ The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. ”
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“ Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will — whatever we may think. ”
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“ Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. ”
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“ I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. ”
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“ A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants. ”
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“ A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants. ”
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“ Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. ”
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