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The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.


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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.



Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...



I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.



It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.



I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.



Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.



No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.



Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.



We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.



I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.





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Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.



It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.



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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

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