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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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Personal Development
"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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Personal Development
"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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Personal Development
"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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Personal Development
"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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Personal Development
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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Personal Development
"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
Education
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
Self-Awareness
"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
News
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
Wonder
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
Taste
"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
Empathy
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
Ambition
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
Fear
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
Life
"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
Reality
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