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"When stars form, pandemonium reigns." -- Astronomy Picture of the Day, Aug. 2

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute." -- Vladimir Nabokov

"As you were breaking up with me, all I could think about were those mornings when you compared the pop-tarts and gave me the one with more frosting." -- One Sentence

"I was lost in the lakes and the shapes that your body makes... I traced my finger along your trails. Your body was the map; I was lost in it." -- Great Lake Swimmers

"Appliances have gone berserk... I cannot keep up." -- Radiohead

"Of all things, communication is most wonderful." -- John Dewey

"I wonder if I could tie the ocean to your knees... It's an experiment; experiment with me." -- Mates of State

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -- Annie Dillard

"May your year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere this year, you surprise yourself." -- Neil Gaiman

"As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others." -- Marianne Williamson

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." -- Vladimir Nabokov

"I think it's very true when you're a writer and you sometimes you have to spend time poking at part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone." -- Vikram Chandra

"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations." -- Elias Canetti

"Maybe I am slightly inhuman... All I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house." -- Edward Hopper

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -- Mary Oliver

"Starting out in a new direction requires faith. Faith is knowing that we are not lost even when there are no external signs to tell us where and how we should proceed." -- Peter London

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." -- Marcus Aurelius

"The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea." -- Isak Dinesen

"The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go." -- Henry Rollins