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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."

"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."

"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."

"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."

"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
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