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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

—John Ruskin

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Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

—Conrad Hall

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

—Balthus

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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

—Fred Allen

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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

—Alfred Adler

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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

—Calvin Trillin

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

—George MacDonald

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You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

—Charles Martin in Chasing Fireflies

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We are two people who used to be in love.
What a beautiful thing to have been.
What a sad thing to be.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do

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It's the people who seem weak who are always surprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectedly weak.

—Lisa Jewell in Ralph's Party

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Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.

—Janette Oke in Love Comes Softly

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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare.

—Anne Lamott in Plan B

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Why should I be so upset about someone who could treat me so badly?

—Lindsey Kelk in What A Girl Wants

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That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.

—John Green in Looking for Alaska

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