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“When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.”
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“It is the busiest man who has time to spare.”
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“My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world”
Source : Jane Blocker, Ana Mendieta (1999). “Where is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile”, p.34, Duke University Press
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“[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories!”
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“In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.”
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“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”
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“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.”
Source : "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.
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“Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.”
Source : Richard North Patterson (2010). “In the Name of Honor”, p.288, Macmillan
