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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."

"Everything makes me nervous - except making films."

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."

"Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it."

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."

"Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams."

"Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red."

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."

"Every artist writes his own autobiography."

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."

"Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood."

"You can't start at the top."

"The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules."

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."

"All mankind love a lover."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"Earth laughs in flowers."

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

"All life is an experiment."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."