Antoine de la Sale famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
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In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
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What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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