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"Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumstances and environment; that often when he raged at himself as an egotist something would whisper ingratiatingly: "No. Genius!"
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"When you're there for others, you're ahead of everyone."
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"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."
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Personal Development
"Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself."
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Personal Development
"Celebrate your life, you are your own light."
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"To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity."
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Personal Development
"The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself."
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"Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough."
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Personal Development
"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."
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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."
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"The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you."
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
Risk
"...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past."
Psychology
"All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
Desire
"I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."
Emotion
"Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person."
Writing
"Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."
Romance
"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."
Connection
"Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon."
Memory
"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
Money
"Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness."
Youth
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