Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Author: Jean Cocteau

Author: Jean Cocteau

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Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet de

Author: Steve Jobs
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When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to mak

Author: C. JoyBell C.
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To want a gift and not receive it,that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is ete

Author: J. Scott Featherstone
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You’ve got to have confidence in the very thing that makes you unique – then wait for the world to c

Author: Lindsey Stirling
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I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain Remove some barrier from the roa

Author: Eva Rose Park
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We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Author: Richard Rohr
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I am never alone, my Soul guides me and my Guardian Angel protects me. That is teamwork at its best.

Author: Genevieve Gerard
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To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That's power.

Author: Sister Souljah
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Don't waste all today worrying about the possible mistakes you may have made yesterday. You don't kn

Author: Angie karan
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Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, fro

Author: Henry Rollins
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It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.

Author: Gil Scott-Heron
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight

Author: George Eliot
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquen

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happiness is only for a short time then comes sadness which proceeds on overtime

Author: A.N. Knight
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Some of us live in the future,Connected to hurts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by bitter regr

Author: J.A. Conner
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The Noblest form of Affection

Author: Oscar Wilde
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it

Author: Jeremy Taylor
Quote #196460

...when I thought he loved me, when I thought we were joined not just for breath’s time, but for the

Author: Sharon Olds
Quote #293281

Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, f

Author: Abhishek Kumar
Quote #13842

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.

Author: Tess Gerritsen
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Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of

Author: Richard Feynman
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Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

Author: James J. Hill
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‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learn

Author: Seth Grahame-Smith
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Consciousness has evolved biologically and can therefore be explained biologically.

Author: Unknown
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Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times wi

Author: Horace
Quote #491575

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself,

Author: David Rockefeller
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Well, let me try again,' he said. 'If it be true, and no doubt it is, that the proper study of manki

Author: Peter Ruber
Quote #72772

Destruction wasn't when you chose to destroy me.It was when i let you.

Author: Anjum Choudhary
Quote #383393

Nate and me... we aren't built for truces, for good times, for light jokes and giggles. We're meant

Author: Julie Johnson
Quote #473549

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thou

Author: P. G. Wodehouse
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The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk

Author: Peter L. Bernstein
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Author: Maggie Gallagher
Quote #767

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

Author: Lauren Oliver
Quote #266164

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. A

Author: Andrew Davidson
Quote #342706

She had hit rock-bottom. She had given a blow job to a man who for all intents and purposes, was a b

Author: A.T. Hicks
Quote #304116

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart,

Author: Wendy K. Williamson
Quote #457391

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also i

Author: Mike Leigh
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I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

Author: Billy Crystal
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The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, b

Author: Steven Pinker
Quote #153006

You should persist long enough to conquer.

Author: Unknown
Quote #37143

I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #492359

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
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My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who

Author: Kenneth Everett
Quote #468695

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

Author: Edward Everett
Quote #307184

Go put on your mask.Say 'trick-or-treat' in costume.It’s All Hallows Eve.

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
Quote #176911

In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #312241

Patience is a virtue as they say and listening is an exercise in patience.

Author: Kaleb Kilton
Quote #295227

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of read

Author: Francis Spufford
Quote #399898

23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.

Author: James C. Dobson
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Friendship is like a flower. It needs daily love and care to blossom. If you forget to give it water

Author: Lily Amis
Quote #298140

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you floa

Author: Kamila Shamsie
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There is always another layer of awareness, understanding, and delight to be discovered through sync

Author: Hannelie Venucia
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How old are you?""Ah that is a good one. I do not know.""Before cars?""Before trains, before guns. B

Author: Toby Barlow
Quote #92014

Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever thi

Author: C.S. Lewis
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I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to t

Author: Benjamin Franklin
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If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it

Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

Author: Holly Goldberg Sloan
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Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prim

Author: Charles Emmerson
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The Prince is the only option to a better living. His arm is reliable and dependable. Get to Him, st

Author: Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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He knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst th

Author: Yaa Gyasi
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Dear Non-Black American,when you comes to the United States, you become black.No matter of your orig

Author: Henry Johnson Jr
Quote #149315

Courage, will-power and confidence in your abilities will carry you to greater heights.

Author: Unknown
Quote #321169

Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine mus

Author: B.R. Ambedkar
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The brain is a material thing, something you can hold in your hands. The mind is an immaterial thing

Author: Toni Sorenson
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Success = Dream x Plan x WorkConscious dreams are essential components of your success. When you are

Author: Vishwas Chavan
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It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag

Author: Nelson Algren
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Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overs

Author: Hunter Shea
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Only by facing your demons can you stop them from having power over you.

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #86458

Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may b

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #63160

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t

Author: Betty Smith
Quote #440572

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Author: H. L. Mencken
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Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.

Author: Conn Iggulden
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All I ever wanted is you, Miss Zarish,” he said while pulling her closer to himself.

Author: Sara Naveed
Quote #74052

Love is black. Love is white. Love is brown. Love is humanity.

Author: Matshona Dhliwayo
Quote #418059

What isn't tried won't work.

Author: Claude McDonald
Quote #408729

We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.

Author: Anne Frank
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I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I

Author: Charles Frazier
Quote #1105

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was im

Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
Quote #324700

If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.

Author: Lex Martin
Quote #424776

In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle.

Author: Terry Lee Rioux
Quote #423035

I’m a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that they,

Author: Nicholas Trandahl
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Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dess? I though that woul

Author: Chris Cleave
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To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
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...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

Author: Paulo Freire
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Every time I come across learning items of interest, I'll send distribution voice mail to the approp

Author: Fred DeLuca
Quote #150010

May you find endless enthusiasm to achieve your dreams in the coming year.

Author: Unknown
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Have you ever felt so full of thoughts you think you could burst?

Author: Anyta Sunday
Quote #66307

Drop the fear. What you fear most, can be a repeated theme in your life.

Author: Amit Ray
Quote #230743

In suffering we find our truest selves.

Author: Jessie Burton
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New Zealand has the cheapest government money can buy.

Author: Grant McLachlan
Quote #266677

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.

Author: Elizabeth Winder
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But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the e

Author: Tony Campolo
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I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritat

Author: Anthony Bourdain
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My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would

Author: Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the pole

Author: Paulo Freire
Quote #87122

Never question yourself to satisfy the comfort of those living blindly by the false masks of life.

Author: Nikki Rowe
Quote #300053

The knowledge that life is finite was always in the back of my mind.

Author: A.V. Roe
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You keep squintin' in Savage's dark corners, you gonna wish yourself blind.

Author: Alexandra Sirowy