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“Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.”
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“ That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky ...”
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“I have never lived in a room that wasn't a still-life — I couldn't.”
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“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.”
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“Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.”
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“Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.”
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“Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.”
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“It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.”