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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley

Wine Beauty Worse Both Than Beholder Holder

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. Barbara Kingsolver

War Spiritual Lost Own Pain Every Else Someone Both Empathy Understand Opposite Won Capacity Meaningful Really Meanness Your

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith

Time You Will First Everything Earth Though Seeing Look First Time Glory Were Then Your Filled Last Last Time

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte

Wisdom Mind Restless Makes Pillow

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness True Happiness Way Find Risk Only Open True Being Cut

A young dog's faith is absolute... Dogs are notorious for hope. Dogs believe that this morning, this very morning, may begin a day of fascination, easily grander than any day in the past. Donald McCaig

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen

Day Nature Morning Winter Spring Autumn Close Early Early Morning

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. Elizabeth Gilbert

Work Love You Creativity Care Too Much Will Whatever Too Other Diligence Destiny Some About Only Results Like Learn Without Metaphor Itself Representative The Only Thing Happen Wants Regardless Happens Process Craves To Love Much Next Mule Thing Monk

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong

Courage Dark Rare Everyone Dark Place Follow Leads Talent Where Place

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. Ernest Hemingway

You Invention Enough Those Alive All Things Immortality Give Something Through True New Know Well Make Well Enough Truer Exist Than New Thing Representation Anything Happened Cannot Your Whole Thing Things

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. Ernest Hemingway

You Yourself Become Out Wipe Wiped Opponents Being Your Eligible

No human creature can give orders to love. George Sand

Love Give Human Orders To Love Creature

It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting. H. P. Lovecraft

Dog Master Own Philosophic Distinct Easily Tribute Compliment More Could Cat He Instinct Another His Friend Very Confidant Interesting Choose Who Companion Agreeable Wholly Chosen Found Whose

The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. Honore de Balzac

Man Husband Lover Silent He Converse

All morons hate it when you call them a moron. J. D. Salinger

You Hate Moron Morons Call Them

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. J. R. R. Tolkien

You Half Like Know Well Than Should Less Deserve

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? Jack Kerouac

Car Thou Thy Shiny America Night

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