And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb
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A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. ~American Proverb
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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
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Two heads are better than one. ~English Proverb
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. ~Chinese Proverb
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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The fool speaks, the wise man listens. ~African Proverb
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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An empty belly is the best cook. ~Estonian Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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