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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."

"Knowledge is an intellectual art. Wisdom is a spiritual discipline."

"There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you."

"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."

"No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!"
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"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"

"But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart."

"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."

"Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her-the opportunity, the courage."

"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

"He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this quiet taste in dress, these relaxed, dove like postures. He marveled at the sublimity of her soul and at the lace on her petticoat. With her ever-changing moods, by turns brooding and gay, chattering and silent, fiery and casual, she aroused in him a thousand desires, awakening instincts or memories. She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague "she" of all the poetry books."
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