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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time

Effort Distortion Courage Essential
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

Beauty Balance Dimensions Abstraction
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Astonishing Understanding Art
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Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Drawing Particular dexterity Expressing Intimate feeling
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...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Our time Share Opinions Feelings
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A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

Thousand words Deep impression
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You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Strongest man World Stands Alone
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Some people Loves
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I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

Believe Reasonable Human being
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You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Never wear Best trousers Freedom
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But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves." "It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.

Man Sacrifice Honor Loves
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom among us is the compact majority

Most dangerous Enemy Truth Freedom
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Live War Heart Soul
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Average man Life illusion Happiness
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Much falsehood Home School Speak
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Happiness Worth Daring deed Game
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There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to

People Loves Likes Talk to
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

Everything Touch Destines Farcical
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People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.

People Special revolutions Politics
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Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

World Compare Happiness Forgiveness
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You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something—with something that is a little like love.

Empty Place Within me Fill it
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First condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.

Happy marriage Love
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Commonly see Diminution Freedom
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Science Important thing Modify Advances
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage Ceremony Rings Finger
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It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

About Always Because Good Knows
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If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Close Four Getting Morning
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

Am Deep Deep Down Down
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Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

After Book Could First
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Billions Carbon Chemistry Compounds
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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

First Hands Heat Heart
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We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Individual Lntegrity Need Old-Fashioned
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People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Always Anything Each Never
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Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.

Field John Men Met
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I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

About Am Because Enjoy
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Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

Brazil Country Cup Even
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I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.

Always Been Brother Come
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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

About Afraid Anything Else
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Busy Discouraged Faith Get
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Nobody has the power to stop what you have been blessed with. When God says 'It is done!', it really is done. Believe and claim what is yours.

Claim Believe Done Power
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Anything Done Else Everything
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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Close Everything Hand Like
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

About Age Eat Honestly
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You need to get to a level where you understand that your victorious end has already been established. When you understand this, you will not go through life upset because of a disappointment, frustrated because a dream hasn't come to pass, or bitter because of a loss. You will keep your joy!

Keep Joy Loss Bitter
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God knows the end of every matter from its beginning. Nothing that you're going through, therefore, comes as a surprise to Him. He has already ensured that though weapons may be formed and forged against you- you remain on the winning side.

Remain Winning Already Side
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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Else Everyday Everything Everything Else
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Been Divorce Eyes Failure
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I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

Another Business Foolish Get
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I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Big Children Everything Grow
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We were not created to just get on by with average, ordinary or mediocre lives. God created us to make lasting marks in this generation. He designed us to be extraordinary. Indeed, every person has seeds of greatness embedded within them, and by watering those seeds with the word of God, they can sprout forth and flourish.

Flourish Forth Seeds Average
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