Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Author: Gian Carlo Menotti

Author: Gian Carlo Menotti

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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
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I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I

Author: Meryl Streep
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... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
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Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordin

Author: Eric Schlosser
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and

Author: Robert E. Lee
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If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in

Author: Brian Dennehy
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I can’t take back the past, Nadya. Not even we Unicorns can do that. But I’ll be damned if someone e

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Moving from phonetics to etymology, ‘vagina’ originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain’

Author: Inga Muscio
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Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Author: Robert Dale Owen
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The very important thing you should have is patience.

Author: Jack Ma
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No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph rec

Author: Ray Bradbury
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To be great in life, you must be determined. You can only discover yourself when you are self motiva

Author: Osunsakin Adewale
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I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear the

Author: Sherwood Anderson
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The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable pro

Author: Anthony Burgess
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My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much.

Author: Simone Elkeles
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At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and

Author: Rita Levi-Montalcini
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:Do you trust me?: Wareska quietly linked.:To stay alive? No. You and the monster will get lost in r

Author: Ash Gray
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Jesus Christ is three in one: the way, the truth, and the life.

Author: Unknown
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He took the necklace out of the box and carefully fastened it around her neck. Just like he'd imagin

Author: Rainbow Rowell
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Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floo

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.

Author: Ivana Hruba
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We're inches apart yet worlds away.

Author: Meagan Spooner
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Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Author: Brigitte Bardot
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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whi

Author: Julia Cameron
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All blood runs red.

Author: Unknown
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What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Word warfare is going on, which is not less destructive than any War. Words can be more destructive

Author: William Gomes
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I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't c

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When you loose my Energy, you'll loose it all.Petra HermansOctober 30, 2016

Author: Petra Hermans
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When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name an

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you

Author: Daniel Wallace
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Either we fight thousand times or breakup hundred times, either we don't talk for a day or for a yea

Author: Sahil Sachdeva
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Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for

Author: Compton Gage
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Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, o

Author: Erik Pevernagie
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I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I

Author: Maurice Sendak
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All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without wh

Author: Margaret Heffernan
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A true leader is one who accepts defeat in the same way he accepts winning.

Author: Abdulazeez Henry Musa
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I fight with you because i care. Now, when i stop fighting with you, thats when you should really st

Author: Katelyn Lillis
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I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood.

Author: Laillah Gifty Akita
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It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief

Author: Alain de Botton
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The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering

Author: Leta B.
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If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

Author: Seth MacFarlane
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[H]er spare strange beauty was not that of a woman, nor even of a statue, but that of the Platonic a

Author: James Blish
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Saying "thank you" signifies sense of gratitude, but it also implies your incapability.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Author: Sylvia Earle
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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most nai

Author: Milan Kundera
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He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.He walks to the next screen, hungry to be

Author: James Dashner
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The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Author: Brendan Francis
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Dance was her style, dance was her fashion.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality.

Author: Marty Rubin
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The greatest things cannot be bought with money.

Author: Unknown
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Positiveness of Soul is favourably gained through the Love Nature, rather than through mental prowes

Author: C. JoyBell C.
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The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and

Author: Dorothea Dix
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I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then c

Author: Arkady Strugatsky
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In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of t

Author: John Reed
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Don't talk of Life as if its one big package of miseries - it is the very Essence within that passes

Author: AainaA-Ridtz
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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of ne

Author: I.M. Pei
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Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.

Author: Shannon A. Thompson
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Why did he kill his own mother?’ Ruth asked.‘The oldest story in the book,’ said Gamache.‘Ben was a

Author: Louise Penny
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It's just I'd rather sleep through the days so I'll be awake for the nights, when the boys are out.

Author: Kerry Cohen
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Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.

Author: Neil Gevisser
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Dreams are for little girls to whisper to each other. They don't really come true. I'm a fully grown

Author: Julie Garwood
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The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Author: Max Stirner
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When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

Author: Marcel Proust
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No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly t

Author: Sarah Noffke
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Don't they understand what fiction is?

Author: Lauren Groff
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Noone knows and noone seeswe lovers doing what we pleasebut people stop and point at theseten milk b

Author: Roger McGough
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To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully

Author: Charles Bukowski
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We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip

Author: Lenore Skenazy
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Back in medieval times, " I said, "we used oil of vitriol for its healing properties. No doubt that'

Author: Rick Riordan
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With the help of God, we shall triumph in any trouble.

Author: Unknown
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Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

Author: Martha Wells
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You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your proj

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only a

Author: Alan Moore
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It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif

Author: Charlotte Brontë
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[Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort

Author: Randall Styers
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Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the d

Author: Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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That's what it's all about–knowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.

Author: Julie Reece Deaver
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Youngsters deserve no opinions.

Author: Carla H. Krueger
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

Author: Zaha Hadid
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Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Plea

Author: Aldous Huxley
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Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours."Ranett

Author: Brandon Sanderson
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The path of love is not a tedious path. It's a path of joy. It's a path of singing and dancing.

Author: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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All for one one for all.

Author: Alexander Dumas
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Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their te

Author: Ray Bradbury
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my

Author: Samuel L. Jackson
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If you are lucky you will have the opportunity in your life to be owned by a good piece of land.

Author: Daniel J. Rice
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I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I

Author: Nancy Woodhull
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the

Author: Mary J. Blige
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A smile is a language of love which everyone can understand.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Author: Will Rogers
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Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do th

Author: Bryant McGill
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God has a will for your city, country, neighboring countries, and the whole world

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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Stars are howling see moon is caught on fire.

Author: Saqlain bin mushtaq
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No mother should lose her child.

Author: Ann Hood
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I seek to know my divine self.

Author: Unknown