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Quotes including the word “close”.

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Graham Bell

When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Paul Eluard

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Galeano

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Immanuel Kant

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”

Norman Mailer

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Bob Marley

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

Pablo Picasso

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Sylvia Plath

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Antonio Porchia

He who has seem everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

Rilke

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

Thales

Whatever bad happens to your house not to be disclosed .

Xenophon

Men are drawn closer to virtue when they see the dishonor that falls on misleaders.