"Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal."

-- Wallace Stevens

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“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.”

Source : Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree
“After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'”
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
“Not everyone is as nice as us.”
“It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.”
“It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance”
“I never thought a role model should be negative.”
“I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor.”

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