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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

—Pierre Bonnard

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

—H. L. Mencken

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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

—Fannie Hurst

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My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

—Raoul Dufy

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

—Winston Churchill

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When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.

—Jess Rothenberg in The Catastrophic History of You and Me

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The days are long, but the years are short.

—Gretchen Rubin

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

—Werner Heisenberg

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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

—Halifax

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

—Mark Twain

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Reality, no matter how widened and heightened our perceptions, never ceases to be anything but the effect on us of an infinite mystery.

—Laurens Van der Post

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The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

—Dan Millman

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Lines were blurring, and I couldn't tell where along the way I stopped caring.

—R.J. Lewis in Loving Lawson

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