I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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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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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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A forest is in an acorn. ~Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English 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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A fast is better than a bad meal. ~Irish Proverb
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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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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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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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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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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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ~Abba Eban
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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