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"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."
"If we fear to open our eyes during the day time, we will complain that life has nothing to offer except darkness."
"I respect the opinions of others."
"The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy."
"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."
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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."
"And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him."
"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
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