We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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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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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. ~Antoine Rivarol
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No one can advise or help you; no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart. Delve into yourself for a deep answer ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there. ~Marc Ostrofsky
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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When the boy is growing, he has a wolf in his belly. ~German Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears. ~Polish Proverb
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Don't give advice unless you're asked. ~Amy Alcott
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Activity breeds prosperity. ~Kurdish Proverb
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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