Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
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In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!
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I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.
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I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
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Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
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I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
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For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.
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Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.
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O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what is this? Thou thoughtest of thy prowess and thy sins Thou hast not lost thyself to save thyself.
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That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
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I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
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A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.
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I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.
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We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
