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It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends something.

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Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

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The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

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A painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

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"Science" means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

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To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

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Love Quote

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

- Andy Warhol

Truth Quote

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

Love Quote

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- G. K. Chesterton

Wise Quote

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

- Abraham Lincoln

Life Quote

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

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