"A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."
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"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
"I'm so popular in life that valets are already starting to park the cars lined up for my funeral, which is expected sometime late 2082. #OutBoastKanye"
"Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge."
"People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin."
"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."
"Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes."
"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."
"Invisible Attraction What's invisible to the eye is that as you move towards love,love moves towards you."
"It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine."
"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all."
"Simply Fabulous Haiku If I write fablesam I a fabulist orsimply fabulous?"
"Wedding Veil [10w] + {Couplet} A wedding veil's of no availbecause virginity's a fairy-tale."
"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."
"They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod."
"Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool."
"If you merge an emergency with a mannequin, that’s how I look at networking events. Panicked stillness, that’s the look I’ve perfected in an effort to make myself appear more approachable."
"Dressed to Kill [10w] At fashionable parties,vegetarians should not be dressed to kill."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
"Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other."
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