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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Water
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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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Art
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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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Dreams
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Breathing
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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Breathing

In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air. – Changing Times magazine

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Breathing

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. – L. Frank Baum

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Breathing

Let the air become you, and then leave you. Forgive each breath because although it abandons you, every single time, it is also brings you life. A man who cannot forgive the air has no chance of living. – Edmond Manning, King Perry

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Breathing

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov

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Sky & Clouds

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. – Vaclav Havel

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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money – this is the guy who needs to laugh. – Larry David

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Money

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. – Laura Bush

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Learning