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The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her ...

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For marriage has nothing in common with love. marriage makes for security; love makes only for suffe...

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How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had be...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in eve...

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Even now, whenever I think of her, I envision a quiet Sunday morning. A gentle, clear day, just gett...

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Luka fisik memang diperlukan saat mempelajari sesuatu yang penting dalam hidup.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Aku akan bahagia jika aku dan lari bisa menua bersama.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers.

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinar...

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The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare sp...

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Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy S...

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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is ...

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There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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Jawaharlal NehruSelected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy...

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm jus...

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If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you ...

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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — yo...

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I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early d...

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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a ...

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Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...

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I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twi...

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You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It us...

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I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in t...

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There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all...

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't...

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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing a...

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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and ...

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...

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We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our ...

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The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

Used every man according to his capacity.

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

But if something that was good morphs into something that's not good - and is not changing back - on...

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I’m new to money. I spent most of my existence without it. I know how to live frugally. If we were t...

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I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this jo...

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...the Cupcake Nation mentality - "Everyone's a winner!" - is so dangerous. When we try to protect t...

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I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up," I whispered."Don't give u...

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~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU a...

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He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-b...

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Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...

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The world is a better place when you smile.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

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Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrowsloosens into the night the petals that form y...

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

But we must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And ...

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The battles may last for a long time, perhaps even years. There are powerful forces on both sides, a...

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You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bot...

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If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.

Love, too, was just a question of time

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Tao of Emerson the Tao of Emerson

Quotation confesses inferiority.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonUncollected Writings

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordinatio...

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the read...

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Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against th...

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Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible...

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I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in retu...

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All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...

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Sarah DessenJust Listen

Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools...

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I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.

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Stephen Jay GouldFull House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regr...

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He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accep...

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