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"Something that is loved is never lost."

- Toni Morrison

Love

"Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all."

- Toni Morrison

Love

"Don't ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn't fall in love; I rose in it."

- Toni Morrison

Love

"I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was 12 or 13. He said, ‘You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.’ And I said, ‘But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!’ And he said, ‘Yeah, but I know it’s there.’"

- Toni Morrison

Love

"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."

- Toni Morrison

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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out."

- Anita Roddick

Originality

"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."

- Therese of Lisieux

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"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."

- Franz Joseph Haydn

Originality