Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? ― Sidney Sheldon

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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. ― Bell Hooks

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry. ― Oscar Wilde

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If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.

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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot. - Adam Sandler

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When you're happy, you enjoy the music. When you're sad, you understand the lyrics ― Frank Ocean

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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

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The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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A person hears only what they understand. ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. ― Dan Howell

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