Novelty
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures
As those things which engage us merely by their novelty cannot attach us for any length of time, curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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