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Clarice Lispector
I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.
The Hour of the Star
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Gilbert Chesterton
The simplification of anything is always sensational
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Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
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Marcel Proust
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
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Khalil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply
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Edmund Burke
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle
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Albert Einstein
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler
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Honor� de Balzac
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo
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Johann Goethe
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
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William Wordsworth
How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the heart.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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