Snapshots of Brilliance

Y'all know what quotes are and how they work.

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France.

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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And here he has made it, ir is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

William Somerset Maugham.

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Writers remember everything, especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer; but the only real requirements is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

Stephen King.

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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go back bread.

Barbara Kingsolver.

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You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen.

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You know how writers are: they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Orson Scott Card.

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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you—will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others—or to diminish something of their plans.

Jeremy Bentham.

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Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi.

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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is worse by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Epictetus.

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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

L.M. Montgomery.

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That’s the secret to life: replace one worry with another.

Charles M. Schulz.

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I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not.

Jean Webster.

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I do not think we have a right to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Marlene Dietrich.

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Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being.

Jean-Yves Leloup.

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That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.

Junot Diaz.

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If you are not the hero of your own story, then you’re missing the whole point of your humanity.

Dr Steve Maraboli.

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Age does not make us childish; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.