„I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.“

— Fernando Pessoa

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„You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The lastpresent you gave me was a stick.”“You wanted a weapon.”“It was a stick.”“It had a bow on it.”“It was a stick.”“I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.“
— Derek Landy
„You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived — my breakfast supplied only two ideas — that the rolls were good and the butter bad.“
— Jane Austen
„I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.“
— Jane Austen
„You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.“
— Jane Austen
„I can offer you my life, though it is a short life. I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope the rest of my life-whatever its length-happy, by spending it with you.-Jem.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain“
— Cassandra Clare
„…this bull is a bull and this horse is a horse… If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.“
— Pablo Picasso