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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.: Salma Hayek
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.: Michael Jordan (1963 - )
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.: Diane Ackerman
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.: Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.: Roberto Benigni (1952 - ), in Newsweek
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Food is the most primitive form of comfort.: Sheila Graham
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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.: P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.: Robert M. Hamilton
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