"Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love."

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“I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. … That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.”

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"We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't …"

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"I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration."

— Washington Irving

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"Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom."

— Jodi Picoult

Literature1966

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"What I had to say was so clear and I felt it so deeply that I am amazed by the tediousness, repetitiousness, verbiage, and disorder of this writing. What would have made it lively and vehement coming …"

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophy1946–2014

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