Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. ~Welsh Proverb
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I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. ~Lucy Walker
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination; hospitable, good humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. ~Paul Theroux
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky. ~Russian Proverb
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Bad is never good until worse happens. ~Danish Proverb
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear. ~French Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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