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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"
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"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."

"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."

"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."

"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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