Convite De Aniversario Quotes

God became man; and the love, woman. (Dieu s'est fait homme; - Et l'amour, femme.) ~ Charles De Leusse

We believe the explanation we hear last. It's one of the ways in which narrative influences our perception of truth. We crave finality, and end to interpretation, not seeing that this too, the tying up of all loose ends in the last chapter, is only a storytelling ruse. The device runs contrary to experience, wouldn't you say? Time never simplifies - it unravels and complicates. Guilty parties show up everywhere. The plot does nothing but thicken. ~ Michelle De Kretser

In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity. ~ Alain De Botton

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. ~ Luc De Clapiers

To be loved by someone is to realize how much they share the same needs that lie at the heart of our own attraction to them. Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' - when subjectively we feel dispersed and confused. We would not love if there were no lack within us, but we are offended by the discovery of a similar lack in the other. Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem. ~ Alain De Botton

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses. ~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers. ~ Victoria De Los Angeles

What's life? A frenzied, blurry haze.
What's life? Not anything it seems.
A shadow. Fiction filling reams.
All we possess on earth means nil,
For life's a dream, think what you will,
And even all our dreams are dreams. ~ Pedro Calderon De La Barca

My childhood lacked affection and ambience. ~ Jacqueline De Ribes

In the social body as in every organized body - that is, one in which the parts are arranged in certain relationships to each other relative to a given end - the cessation of vital functions does not come from the annihilation of their parts, but from their displacement and the disturbances of their relationships. ~ Louis De Bonald

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

During my stay in the United States, I witnessed the spontaneous formation of committees in a country for the pursuit and prosecution of a man who had committed a great crime. In Europe, a criminal is an unhappy man who is struggling for his life against the agents of power, whilst the people are merely a spectator of the conflict: in America, he is looked upon as an enemy of the human race, and the whole of mankind is against him. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Don't," she said to her brother.
"What?"
"Don't act like I'm dead already. I, for one, am not giving up. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

We all colour devotion according to our own likings and dispositions. One man sets great value on fasting, and believes himself to be leading a very devout life, so long as he fasts rigorously, although the while his heart is full of bitterness;–and while he will not moisten his lips with wine, perhaps not even with water, in his great abstinence, he does not scruple to steep them in his neighbour's blood, through slander and detraction. ~ Francis De Sales

We laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety. ~ Max De Pree

It seems as if, in making a marriage, either the individual or the interest of the species must come off badly. ~ Alain De Botton

Though the three of them were unrelated by blood, they were sisters all the same. In the heart, where it mattered. ~ Charles De Lint

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail. ~ Alain De Botton

Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt ...
but a find;
not a greeting ...
but a proclamation;
not an outward fashion ...
but inward grace;
not a day ...
but an eternity. ~ Anderson Luis De Abreu Oliveira

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it. ~ Jules De Goncourt

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. ~ Simone De Beauvoir

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you! ~ Honore De Balzac

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. ~ Michel De Montaigne

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! ~ Marie De France

She knew this music
knew it down to the very core of her being
but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed. ~ Charles De Lint

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. ~ Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Esenin quotes ancient legends to prove his point. Then he speaks of the different ornaments adorning the farmer's house, such as the wooden horse on the roof, the roosters and pigeons, the embroidered flowers on the towels and bedcovers. "All these are not only ornaments", he says, "but also a great epic, explaining the origin of the world and the destination of man". ~ Frances De Graaff

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra