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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

—E. O. Wilson

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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

—James Agee

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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

—Alfred de Vigny

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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

—William Blake

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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

—Agnes Martin

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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

—Henny Youngman

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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

—Ernest Hemingway

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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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You have to choose the life you want. You have to take action and realize that you create your own destiny by making choices and sticking to them.

—Robin Bielman in Wild About Her Wingman

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Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

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You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

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I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

—Daniel Handler in Why We Broke Up

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I don't want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want to sound like myself. Trying to be perfect gets in the way of all three.

—Scott Berkun

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