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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
― Orson Welles

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
― Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some

“His attention span was not long, shall we say?”
― Lauren Bacall