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Andrea Lawrence

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Andrea’s Quotes

“The pianokeys are black and white
but they sound like a million colors in your mind”
― Maria Cristina Mena, The Collected Stories of Maria Cristina Mena

tags: colors, interpretation, music, philosophy, piano, racism

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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: heart, love, reason, truth

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“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”
― Emma Smith

tags: gently, life, rapid, river, simile, sweep

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“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: democracy, liberty

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