"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
-Paul Valery
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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
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"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
-Paul Valery
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
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"Love is being stupid together."
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
-Thomas A. Edison
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"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
-Coco Chanel
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
-Albert Camus
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
-Lao Tzu
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