#eve

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that . ↗

— Diana Ross

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I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. ↗

— Yann Martel

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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ↗

— Jose Marti

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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist. ↗

— Jose Marti

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