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"Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories" - Elie Wiesel
"I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see" - Jimi Hendrix
"There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword" - Ulysses S. Grant
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time" - Mark Twain
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle" - Abraham Lincoln
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right" - Mark Twain
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" - Douglas Adams
"I failed to make the chess team because of my height" - Woody Allen
"All alone, or in two's / The ones who really love you / Walk up and down outside the wall" - Roger Waters
"If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything" - Alan Watts
"Only to the white man was nature a wilderness and only to him was the land 'infested' with 'wild' animals and 'savage' people. To us it was tame, Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery" - Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Sioux (1863-1950)
"We'd go down to the river / And into the river we'd dive" - Bruce Springsteen
" If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present" - Rabindranath Tagore
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The waste basket is the writer's best friend" - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" - Edgar Allan Poe
"Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do" - Yogi Berra
"Why is it that you humans never understand what we need" - Boxers Indya & Hutch
"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long" - Walker Evans
"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure" - Joseph Campbell
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries" - Henry Miller
"It is not length of life, but depth of life" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
"In French, there is an old expression, la patte, meaning the artist's touch, his personal style, his 'paw'. I wanted to get away from la patte and from all that retinal painting" - Marcel Duchamp
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I was very pleased with myself when I discovered that sunlight could not be reproduced; it had to be represented by something else... ...by color" - Paul Cézanne
"Reading maketh a full man" - Francis Bacon
“You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ??Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'? - Dave Barry
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced" - Søren Kierkegaard
"No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions" - Paramahansa Yogananda