I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. - Gustave Courbet

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Failure makes me work even harder.

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The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time. — Joe Girard

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Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it. ― Mandy Hale

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I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ― Neil Gaiman

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. - Hunter S. Thompson

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