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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

—Lily Tomlin

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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

—Charles M. Schulz

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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

—Christopher Fry

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One must give back the stare of the universe. Anybody can.

—Hortense Calisher

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The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are.

—G. C. Lichtenberg

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

—Randall Jarrell

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Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

—Nicholas Sparks in A Walk to Remember

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It could be that there's only one word and it's all we need. It's here in this pencil. Every pencil in the world is like this.

—W. S. Merwin

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

—Plato

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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

—Daniel Boone

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

—Aristotle

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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

—Bill Watterson

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

—Walt Whitman

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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

—Douglas Adams

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

—Walt Whitman

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