The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~French Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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A postponement till morning, a postponement for ever. ~Irish Proverb
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There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish Proverb
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I'm happy that I was able to experience a normal life besides show business, because it gives you something to draw from. ~Ashley Tisdale
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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~Louis Pasteur
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Little children, headache; big children, heartache. ~Italian Proverb
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A proverb is the child of experience. ~English Proverb
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