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"Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences."
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"But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness."
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"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."
"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
"One day you will wake up, you will see with clear sight all that has held you back; you will feel lighter because you finally accept who you are. You will shine with flawless beauty because your happiness comes from the purity of your heart and one day I hope you realise all of this, before it's too late; because darling, if we spent our years nurturing the best of ourselves, heaven would be felt on earth."
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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."
"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."
"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
"A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it."
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."
"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."
"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."
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