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I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…
~ Oscar Wilde
I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.
~ Oscar Wilde
Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism--that is what our century wants.
~ Oscar Wilde
And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking for all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.
~ P.C. Cast
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?
~ Pablo Neruda
Someday, somewhere -anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
~ Pablo Neruda
Why search in vain in every door in which we will not exist because we have not arrived yet? That is how I found out that I was exactly like you and like everybody.
~ Pablo Neruda
We must sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.
~ Pablo Neruda
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
~ Pablo Picasso
To find is the thing.
~ Pablo Picasso
La vie est faite d'histoires sans queue ni tête: ces fariboles se suivent dans un ordre dont on ne saisit pas la raison; mais on cherche, parbleu, on cherche! Il faudra pourtant s'en contenter; la vie est notre best-seller quotidien. Quant à la morale de la fable, c'est ce que nous découvrirons à la fin, ou que nous n'apprendrons jamais. La vie vaut-elle d'être vécue? Tant mieux si les hasards de l'existence ne nous imposent pas une opinion bien tranchée!
~ Pascal Lainé
I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet. - Marshal Law
~ Pat Mills
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.
~ Pat Riley
And then he left the palace to roam the streets of Ombria, where he painted shadows as he searched for light within them, painted thick, barred doors, as he searched in their hewn, scarred grains for what it was they hid, painted high windowless walls as if, rebuilding them stone by stone on paper, he could dismantle them and finally see the secret life behind the real.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
I am the forever-seeking.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live, am unable to live. All life, to me, is a search for the balanced diet, which does not exist. For me. Alas, I am twenty-nine, and I cannot stand more than five days of the life I have invented as the most ideal. May 17, 1950
~ Patricia Highsmith
If he knew anything of her habits, she was certain to be somewhere about. He was not looking for her. He was submitting himself to the possibility of encounter.
~ Patrick Hamilton
Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsic futility of relying on human abilities to provide resolution to our problems.
~ Dallas Willard
Seek and ye shall find.
~ Dan Brown
Una nueva compulsión ardía en su interior. Era sencilla. Básica. Primaria. Encontrar a Vittoria. Sentía un inesperado vacío en su interior. A menudo había oído que una situación intensa podía unir a dos personas más que una convivencia de décadas. Ahora lo creía. En ausencia de Vittoria, sentía algo que no había sentido en años. Soledad. El dolor le daba fuerzas.
~ Dan Brown
habisphere. "Where is Dr. Ming, anyway?
~ Dan Brown