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Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.


Michelangelo

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FRANK DENTON Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
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JOHANN VON GOETHE Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
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ROSE PASTOR STOKES Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above th...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
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TRACY MORGAN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
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"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh
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JOSS WHEDON By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
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HENRY MILLER What good are wings without the courage to fly?
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CHRISTOPHER LOVE Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
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DARYNDA JONES Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
RUDYARD KIPLING Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"
"I don't know. I don't think so."
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R.J. PALACIO Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or B...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or B...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by
simplicity and purity. Simplicity ough...
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LYDIA MARIA CHILD Home / that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and hel...
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RENEE AHDIEH We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
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JASON KIDD If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or ...
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CRAIG CLEVENGER Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
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Which is contained within the marble shell;
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore t...
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTTI I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as scien...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it...
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MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more th...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the specta...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern so...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Precious is sleep, better to be of stone,
while the oppression and the shame still last;
n...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)
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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself co...
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue,
with peace you force all the restless work to en...
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