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1205 Critic Quotes

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Make Reality Endurable Nourish
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...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment..

Memory Particular Image Regret
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One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.

Person Different Acquiesce Feeling
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Final Decision State Mind
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The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.

Charms Passing Woman Direct
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Artist Fail Failure World
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Desire Cut-across Confused Existence
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness Purpose Unhappiness Possible
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For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Beginning Formed Desire Existence
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Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Love Never Unsatisfied Lives
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It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions

Impelled Mind Destined Irrevocable
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Through Art Emerge Person
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Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

Even Simplest Realistic Countries
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Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

Worst Fear Greatest-hope Powers
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine

Instead Imagination Suppose Worthless
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Lying Ourselves Cease Notice
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Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.

Desire Interweave One Existence
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It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Grief Develops Power Mind
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

One Becomes Moral Soon
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With one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Image Beauty Explore
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In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them

Cowardice Man Grown Men
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Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes.

Mystery Traveling New Places
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And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
Memory Girl Fade-away Forgotten
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Sometimes Future Latent Supposedly
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We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

Receive Wisdom Discover Ourselves
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Reality Never Towards Road
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Believe Reality Visible Artificial
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Must Never Afraid Truth
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People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

People Happy Never Think
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Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

Habit Faculties Dormant Done
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Time Passions Disposal Expand
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The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Bonds Unite Person Exist
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With women who do not love us, as with the

Women Love Knowledge Hope
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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Always Passing Mind State
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things

Separation Really Love Tender
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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

Say Things Feels Other
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Love is a reciprocal torture.

Love Reciprocal Torture
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

People Dead Affection Faint
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls bloom.
Grateful People Make Charming
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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

Truth Morning War Declared
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I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.

Friends Companies Wounded Vanquished
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Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

Person Destroyed Cease See
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The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

Germ Story New Simple
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Talent What You Possess
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Lose Your Mind Grow
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Fear Dependent Young Child
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I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.

Never Cease Amazed Friends
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Adult Age Am Another
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Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Consists Different Points Reality
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Across Back Borders Boxes
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