Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
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If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.
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The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
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Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
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If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Sophia Loren is not a citizen.
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One does not meet one's self until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
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To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.
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