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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bar...more

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You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

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One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has changed, yet you feel st...more

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To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but so...more

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Your tears are my prayers.

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The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

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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...more

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You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures

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I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of...more

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Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

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The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What I write in my journal is that I am weak and...more

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If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but ...more

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We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.