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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."
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Personal Development
"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
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Personal Development
"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."
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Personal Development
"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."
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Personal Development
"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."
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Personal Development
"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."
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Personal Development
"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."
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Personal Development
"The fact is, the man who'd begotten me didn't want me. In his eyes I should never have been born. And perhaps that would've been best. As it was, my existence had proven to be nothing more than a nuisance for everyone. I angered my father, brought strife upon my mother, irritated my teachers, and annoyed the other children who were forced to interact with me in school. All by simply being. When you aren't loved, you aren't real. Life is cold, like the stone against my palm."
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Personal Development
"We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal."
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Personal Development
"To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
Language
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
Creation
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
Attitude
"What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe."
Existence
"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
Writing
"Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."
Fear
"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
Writing
"Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing."
Writing
"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."
Creativity
"War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war."
War
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