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"I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."

"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."

"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."

"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."

"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."

"Be yourself, that is all there is."
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