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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Writers express their thoughts through words, designers express their hearts through designs that speak words."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."
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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

"Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret."

"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."

"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."

"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."

"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."
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