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How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.


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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.



The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.



Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.



My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.



When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.



We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.



Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.



One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.



If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.



Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.





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As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!

As important as color is to a painting, or wings to a bird. Music injects vibrancy to film and makes it soar!




The wind and sky know that there is no joy in unlimited freedom

The wind and sky know that there is no joy in unlimited freedom



If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.

If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.



When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.

When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.



I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.



If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.



The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.



The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.



What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.




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