"When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all."
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"Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim."
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"The secret of theory is that truth does not exist."
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"The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you."
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"The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive."
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"The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered."
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"Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect."
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"This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens."
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"Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment."
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"There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult."
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"Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature."
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"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
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"I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games."
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"I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business."
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"For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself."
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"My vote is my secret."
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"Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great"
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"I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed."
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"You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love of the work which you must do anyhow will vitalize your body and keep you from fatigue."
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"I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things."
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