A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers … - Jules de Goncourt

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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Jules de Goncourt

A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

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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.

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There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

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The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

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