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Paul Ambroise Valery

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PAUL VALERY Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
JENNIFER NIVEN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison.
MARY EVANS The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NEVIN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegan...
JENNIFER NIVEN Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.
JENNIFER NIVEN The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
JENNIFER NIVEN Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
JENNIFER NIVEN If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.
JENNIFER NIVEN You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai...
HOPE MIRRLEES I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo...
ANGELA RICHARDSON When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
JENNIFER NIVEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Every...
JENNIFER NIVEN True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.
JOHN GREEN She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN Our trade opens to all the world.
EZRA STILES The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
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THOMAS HARRIS Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
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JOHN C. PARKIN In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature...
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THEHEALTHFOODGURU You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empow...
ANGEL RAMON MEDINA All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.
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JOHN GREEN You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.
JENNIFER NIVEN You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?
JENNIFER NIVEN Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them
JOHN GREEN In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
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JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For...
OSCAR WILDE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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ANUJ SOMANY Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a s...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON I'm thinking of reading something by chef Paul Prudhomme. It's a reading of all kinds of Southern li...
ALICE HOFFMAN There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of so...
ALEISTER CROWLEY In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
LORD EDWARD LYTTON In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Bible is literature, not dogma.
GEORGE SANTAYANA If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'...
BERNARD BARUCH This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.
WILL BLY You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
JOHN GREEN Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes
JOHN GREEN Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really - just like touchin...
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JOHN GREEN Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolera...
JOHN GREEN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relati...
JOHN PAUL WARREN Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
MARTIN H. FISCHER It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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