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"The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here."
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"You are not in the kingdom by accident."
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Personal Development

"Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
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"You are the only one of your kind."
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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
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"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."
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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
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"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"
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"Names have power."
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"You are the architect of your future, you decide whether you build a hut or a palace."
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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
Time

"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
Day

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
Success

"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
Life

"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
Literature

"Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!"
Innocence

"Ignorance of mortality is a comfort."
Philosophy

"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
Money

"Luck is believing you're lucky."
Luck

"The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?"
Life
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