Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. ~Terence McKenna
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ~Malabar Proverb
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A child is what you put into him. ~African Proverb
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. ~Wendell Willkie
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives. ~Hermann Hesse
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. ~Paul Cezanne
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message. ~James Patterson
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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