What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.

Orhan Pamuk
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  2. An unknown road will always lead somewhere where you haven't been before. - Anthony T. Hincks

  3. He may be a nobody to you, but he's a somebody to someone else! - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. What you choose also chooses you. - Kamand Kojouri

  5. With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown. - Dragos Bratasanu

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