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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? James Baldwin
Love You Matters Think Else Him Heaven Love You Anything Anything Else Really
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski
Art Evoke True True Art Principles Portray
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy
Life Change Try Live Changes Otherwise Our Must Mental Demands New Come Impossibility According Than Form Conscience Resolution
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. Margaret Atwood
Democracy Writing Will Practice Reading Young Older Believe Else Everything Everything Else Writers Like Dead Well Readers Course Hand Hand-In-Hand Improve Goes Literacy Which Many
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky
Future Mom Think Birth Give Only Because Mothers Children
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. Paulo Coelho
Time Will Everything Once Never Surely Happen Happens Again Twice Third
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. Philip Roth
Astonishing More Know Knowing Passes Even
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. Philip Roth
Life Time You Alive Period Short Just Short Period Which
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. Richard Bach
You Better Will First Meet Thousand Thousand Years Minute Know Years Friends Than Acquaintances Your
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. Richard Bach
Life Our Come Makes Soulmate Who
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. Richard Bach
Work Something More Call Get Done Want Less
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. Richard Wright
Own Imagination Monster Must Bow His Artist
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. Toni Morrison
Life Language Meaning Of Life Our Our Lives Die May Meaning Meaning Of Measure Lives
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. V. S. Naipaul
People Become Live Other Honors Ways Recognize See More Only Longer Greatest Exist Realities Them Convinced Specific
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Walter Scott
Charmed Faces Most Escape Us
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
Forgiveness Recover Never Until Forgive Done Us Deep Injury
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. Aldous Huxley
Life Freedom Enemy Anarchy Worst Total Efficiency Common Second
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. Aldous Huxley
War Men Cold Monstrous About Absurd Another Quarrel Blood Trained Personal Should Who
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. Alex Haley
You Reality Sure Deal Going Either
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France
Education You Memory Able Between Know How How Much Committed Being Much Even Differentiate
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide
Experience Before Beginning Back Everything Has-Been Nobody Over Since Said Been Going Listens Again Keep Keep Going
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. Anne Rice
God Soul Vision Seen Devil Nothing Damn Secret Would My Soul Never Know Learned Nor Save
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. Anthony Burgess
Good You Celebrate Remember Part Come Always Going Where
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that. Bernard Malamud
Life Live Learn After Lives Two
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. Charles Dickens
Love World Baby Makes Go Tis Round
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. Charles Dickens
Nature Heart Those Attached Never Conceal Opened Am Close Lips Where Anything Whom
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