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"One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."

"Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not."

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

"Like a new creature, maybe an angel, you have shocked everyone with such beauty."

"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas-only I don't exactly know what they are!"

"All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story."

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."

"I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life."
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"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking."


"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."


"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."


"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."


"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"


"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."


"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."


"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."
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