Nicolas Bouvier Quotes
They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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My personal life is also cinema.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
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One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them.
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I am not old, - I cannot be old, Though tottering, wrinkled, and gray ; Though my eyes are dim, and my marrow is cold, Call me not old to-day.
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... Love is heaven and claims its own.
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Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define...or destroy you.
