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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."
Life

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
Home

"I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love."
Mortality

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
Power

"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets."
Society

"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."
Success

"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."
Perception

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
Love

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
Morality

"Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going."
Writing
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development

"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development

"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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