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If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'? ~Muriel Barbery
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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proverbiosA clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. ~Mark E. Petersen
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No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every garden may have some weeds. ~English Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American 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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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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They don't make coats for this kind of cold. ~Ryan Adams
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