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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according t

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. – Milan Kundera

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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. – Milan Kundera

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Shame
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. – Milan Kundera

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Love
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. – Milan Kundera

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I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. – Bob Dylan

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. – Anouk Aimee

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A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. – Rudolf Otto

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Space is the breath of art. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. – G. K. Chesterton

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Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. – From the movie Finding Forrester

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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. – Aristotle

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