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“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
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“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good”
Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.
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“The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.”
Source : Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company
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“Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.”
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“I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.”
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“It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.”
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“When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.”
