"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on marriage
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"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."

Sheehan, George on value
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston on change
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you."

Freeman, James Dillet on change
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"Habits change into character."

Ovid on habit
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is."

Gilbertson, Joan on change   

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

France, Anatole on growth
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"Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change."

Shapira, Gina on mistakes   

"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."

Paz, Octavio on change   

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Boese, Paul on forgiveness
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"People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example."

Unknown, Source on guidance   

"People don't change. Only their costumes do."

Moorse, Gene on change
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"Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change."

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John on infatuation
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"Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art."

Donne, John on love
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"Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?"

Donne, John on love   

"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys."

Donne, John on nudity   

"God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice."

Donne, John on translation   

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

Donne, John on death
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"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

Chanel, Coco on fashion   

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on value
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"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."

Wilde, Oscar on truth
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"In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst."

Wilde, Oscar on tragedies   

"Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on thoughts and thinking
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"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on teacher
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."

Wilde, Oscar on fiction
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."

Wilde, Oscar on jealousy
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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