Quotes of Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

- Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

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- Mark Twain

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- Jhumpa Lahiri

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- Luka J. Riek

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- Andre Gide

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- Socrates

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- Brittany Burgunder

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- Alexander Graham Bell

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- Helen Fisher

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- William Shakespeare

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- Davin Ferrigon

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- Vic Stah Milien

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

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- Sujiwo Tejo

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- Thoreau

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- Ram Dass

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- Rudyard Kipling

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- Leo Buscaglia

“ Sitting too long produces trees. ”

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