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Our house is our corner of the world.


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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.



One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.



If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.



Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.



What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.



Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.



A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.




Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.



Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.





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If you cannot do it without money, its passion exists in unknown galaxies than earth's core.

If you cannot do it without money, its passion exists in unknown galaxies than earth's core.



Cater to your customers’ lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of “I belong here.

Cater to your customers’ lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of “I belong here.



The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.



I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it was a liquid talisman for everybody else, to save them from being strangled by me.

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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.



Kathy Griffin, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, they're all lefties.

Kathy Griffin, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, they're all lefties.



I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.

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India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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I want.." she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.

I want.." she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.



As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.

As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.




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