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“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
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“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
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“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
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“When my best friends had babies we were lucky that our friendships preexisted our new charges by decades. We never forgot who we once were to each other whilst embracing who we’d become. I may not have been able to see myself after my daughters birth but my best friends never lost sight of me.”
― How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
― How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life
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