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"My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly."
Raoul Dufy
"My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly."
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"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
Voltaire
"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
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"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."
John Dryden
"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
Peter De Vries
"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."
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"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
Sam Donaldson
"I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton."
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"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine."
Andrea Dworkin
"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine."
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"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."
Diana Vreeland
"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."
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"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything."
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"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk."
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"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
Joyce Rachelle
"I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine."
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"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
Carol Ann Duffy
"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
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"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
Vincente Minnelli
"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
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"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
Virgil
"Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember."
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"One man excels in eloquence, another in arms."
Virgil
"One man excels in eloquence, another in arms."
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"Giving is the highest expression of potency."
Erich Fromm
"Giving is the highest expression of potency."
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"I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me."
Taylor Swift
"I don't talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me."
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"Happy are those who evolve from within."
Amit Abraham
"Happy are those who evolve from within."
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"I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."
Mary Oliver
"I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings."
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"Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose."
Gift Gugu Mona
"Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose."
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"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
John Dryden
"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
Lawrence Durrell
"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
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"For a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had."
Charles Bukowski
"For a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had."
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"An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness."
Assegid Habtewold
"An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness."
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"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
Mary McCarthy
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
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"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
Joan D. Vinge
"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession."
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"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad."
Paul A. Volcker
"Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad."
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"Our baby is safe, and it's just a house."
Jennifer Dunn
"Our baby is safe, and it's just a house."
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"I was a terrible English student."
Leon Uris
"I was a terrible English student."
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"I love science fiction - always have."
Simon Sinek
"I love science fiction - always have."
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"Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve."
Tanya Masse
"Do not, for one more minute, spend your precious time and energy on or surround yourself with people who are less than you deserve."
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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
Lawrence Durrell
"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
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"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
Alice Munro
"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
Peter De Vries
"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."
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"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
Don Van Vliet
"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
Peter De Vries
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
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"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
Stephen R. Donaldson
"I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse."
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"In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now."
Ann Druyan
"In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now."
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"Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
Susan Sontag
"Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager."
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"Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for."
Carlos Wallace
"Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for."
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"And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you."
Nikki Rowe
"And even if you cared what they had to say, would you act upon their opinions and create your life from it? No. Than stop replaying their toxic words in your head, it's no good for your being and start doing the things that once made you, you."
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"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."
Leon Uris
"I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer."
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"You shouldn't allow people who hurt you to occupy a fraction of your heart. Forgive and move on, especially in this season of thanksgiving."
Assegid Habtewold
"You shouldn't allow people who hurt you to occupy a fraction of your heart. Forgive and move on, especially in this season of thanksgiving."
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"Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly."
Virgil
"Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly."
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"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
Robert E. Howard
"I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts."
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"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
Katie Reus
"She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever."
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"I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well."
Angela Merkel
"I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well."
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"Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality."
Alaric Hutchinson
"Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality."
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"We love certain people until death. We love others until we don't. And sometimes we never fell in love in the first place. Falling in love isn't necessary. Building character, life experience, development, and self-love: those are important. People get lost in the idea of affection for another person that they completely disregard themselves. That's dangerous. Life isn't about building something with someone. Life is about building something for yourself, but if someone comes along and they align, you share it with them."
Dominic Riccitello
"We love certain people until death. We love others until we don't. And sometimes we never fell in love in the first place. Falling in love isn't necessary. Building character, life experience, development, and self-love: those are important. People get lost in the idea of affection for another person that they completely disregard themselves. That's dangerous. Life isn't about building something with someone. Life is about building something for yourself, but if someone comes along and they align, you share it with them."
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"You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family."
Jodi Picoult
"You want to know what I want? I'm sick of being a guinea pig. I'm sick, but I'm never f*cking sick enough for this family."
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"Think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did - it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, 'How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?' Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me."
Taylor Swift
"Think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did - it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, 'How can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you?' Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me."
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