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You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

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We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No matter how many hours you spe...more

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At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined...more

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I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

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Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the...more

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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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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