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"Pictoribus atque poetis quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"That’s the thing about magic; you’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you."

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were big things."

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can’t take it all in at once."

"I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence."

"‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all."

"There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls."