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All Quotes Collection
"Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life."
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"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."
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"There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them."
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"Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven."
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"Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing."
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"The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull."
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"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
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"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."
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"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
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"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."
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"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table."
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"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
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"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition."
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"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."
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"When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes."
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"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."
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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."
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"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation."
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
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"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love,
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"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
13
"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."
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