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\u201cI love to lose myself in other men\u2019s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nCharles Lamb, \u201cDetached Thoughts on Books and Reading\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cFull bottles are quiet; it\u2019s the empty ones that make all the noise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nChinese proverb<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nYukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening\u2026like a light in the midst of the darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nVincent Van Gogh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nSadhguru Jaggi Vasudev<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cTo conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nBertrand Russell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nErnest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cAll growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nHenry Miller<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cIf at first you don\u2019t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nW.C. Fields<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI love to smell flowers in the dark,\u2019 she said. \u2018You get hold of their soul then.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nL. M. Montogmery<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cYou either like me or you don\u2019t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don\u2019t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nDaniel Franzese<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cHer lips drink water but her heart drinks wine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nE.E. Cumming<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u201cWe are like roses that have never bothered to \u2028bloom when we should have bloomed and \u2028it is as if \u2028the sun has become disgusted with\u2028 waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nCharles Bukowski<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cNo longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nEdvard Munch<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cI want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nRumi<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u201cOriginality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nGeorges Seurat<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cSome would sooner die than think. In fact, they often do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nBertrand Russell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cWhen the eyes and ears are open,
\neven the leaves on the trees teach like
\npages from the scriptures.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nKabir<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cWhatever satisfies the soul is truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nWalt Whitman<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u201cThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nMarcel Proust<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u201cThe true paradises are the lost paradises.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014<\/td>\nMarcel Prous<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      \u201cI love to lose myself in other men\u2019s minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.\u201d \u2014 Charles Lamb, \u201cDetached Thoughts on Books and Reading\u201d \u201cFull bottles are quiet; it\u2019s the empty ones that make all the noise.\u201d \u2014 Chinese proverb \u201cThe … Continue reading Quotes IV<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18796"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18798,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18796\/revisions\/18798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}