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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

—Rene Descartes

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

—John Burroughs

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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

—John Keats

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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

—Orson Welles

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Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

—Mary Schmich

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He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

—Billy Wilder

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Knowledge is love and light and vision.

—Helen Keller

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

—Anaïs Nin

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I look down the tracks and see you coming — and out of the haze and mist your darling rumpled trousers are hurrying to me.

—Zelda Fitzgerald, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

—Emma Goldman

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Nothing anybody tells you about marriage helps.

—Max Siegel

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

—Robert Anderson

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He didn't say, Why had I gone. He didn't say, When would I return. He didn't ask anything about my plans, or tell me anything about him. Instead, when at last he spoke, Dennis said, "I'd be curious to know what you think marriage is. If the word marriage has any meaning for you?"
    What an excellent question! It was elegant, succinct, dignified, painful, and utterly shaming — a beautiful response.
    On the highway trucks blew past. I stood in a hot wind, clutching the receiver, trying, against daunting odds, to compose the felicitous answer his query deserved. Nothing would do. Not the intimidated child's "I don't know." Not the political campaigner's "I'm glad you asked." Not the overextended adulterer's "Please don't question me now." After a long, potentially fertile, but finally unproductive silence, I said, "I think when you and I got married, we felt we really loved each other."
    And canny Dennis said, "I ain't talking about love.

—Jane Shapiro

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

—Harlan Miller

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I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it?

—Jean Illsley Clarke

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