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"I was convinced that I would be, that I was already, one in a million."
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"When you know who you are, you won't have false modesty."
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"Even the most aware of us do not realize the infinite power we possess or the magnitude of the ability we have to create, transmute, and transcend."
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"Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong."
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"Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary."
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"Be the same person- with or without money."
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"Nobody alive today can tell me how much I am worth. I change that everyday."
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"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported."
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"Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too."
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"The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude."
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"I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody."
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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
Being
"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
Age
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."
Love
"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."
Truth
"Buying is a profound pleasure."
Pleasure
"As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it."
Philosophy
"One is not born a genius one becomes a genius."
Achievement
"Suddenly I was struck motionless: I was living through the first chapter of a novel in which I was the heroine; she was still almost a child, but we, too, were growing up."
Growth
"I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat."
Nature
"A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes."
Art
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