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I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

—Max Muller

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It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

—Robert Motherwell

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

—Marshall McLuhan

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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

—Paul Valéry

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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

—Howard Nemerov

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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

—Blaise Pascal

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By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

—Taylor Negron

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We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?

—Michel de Montaigne

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Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That's never happened to me before, and I'm not sure it'll ever happen again. I've never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I'd be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Choice

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There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

—Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice

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I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

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Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

—Lisa Scottoline in Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog

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