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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

—Wassily Kandinsky

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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

—Gustave Flaubert

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A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

—Bob Hope

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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

—Stendhal

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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

—Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time?

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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Sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

—Audrey Niffenegger in Her Fearful Symmetry

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

—Arnold H. Glasow

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Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

—W. H. Auden

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

—Mark Twain

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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

—Robert Herrick

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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

—Warsan Shire

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Sometimes in life there are these random moments when everything just clicks. When all the fragments of your fractured past fall together, merging in your mind to form a lucid image of your future. Each mistake made becomes a vital piece as it serves whatever purpose necessary to complete the picture as a whole and suddenly everything becomes so clear.

—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller

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I have a moment where I finally realize that the aching heart, the longing, the grief, the insanity…I finally get it after all these months. That all those things combined are what letting go feels like.

—Lauren Hammond in White Walls

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