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  1. N° 1.
    She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone. |
     
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  2. N° 2.
    Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. |
     
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  3. N° 3.
    Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
     
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  4. N° 4.
    Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on. |
     
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  5. N° 5.
    The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. |
     
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    Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep. |
     
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  7. N° 7.
    A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water. |
     
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  8. N° 8.
    If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.
    And if they don't, they never were.     |
     
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  9. N° 9.
    A technology is not an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensory and cognitive system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. When these ratios change men change. |
     
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  10. N° 10.
    Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? |
     
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  11. N° 11.
    Depression is living in a body that fights to survive, with a mind that tries to die. |
     
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  12. N° 12.
    Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |
     
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  13. N° 13.
    Be clear first and clever second. If you have to throw one of those out, throw out clever. |
     
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  14. N° 14.
    Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. |
     
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  15. N° 15.
    Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. |
     
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  16. N° 16.
    When you play, play hard. When you work, don't play at all. |
     
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  17. N° 17.
    Why fit in when you were born to stand out? |
     
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  18. N° 18.
    Don't design for everyone; it's impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy. |
     
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  19. N° 19.
    We are not defending nature - we are nature defending itself. |
     
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  20. N° 20.
    You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. |
     
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