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"Over complication only confuses the essence of things."

"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."

"If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!"

"If you're under stress, your life is complex. Simplify your life to reduce the stress."

"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."

"The spoon's color does not change the soup's taste."

"Beauty lies in simplicity."

"The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!"
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"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable."


"He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him."


"He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord."


"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."


"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."


"Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination."


"But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu..."


"Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it."


"As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times."
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