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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (2008). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.105, New Directions Publishing
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“I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.”
Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org. 
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“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
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“Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.”
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“Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.”
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“God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.”
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“I would say [Fed policy] has been in some sense Reverse Robin Hood.”
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“Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...”
Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
