“When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”
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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being. -Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. -Henrik Ibsen
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. -Beaumont, Francis
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. -Marcel Duchamp
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. -Baring, Maurice
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