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"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"Don't be your own devil."
"Control your anger, be calm."
"You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not...."
"There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."
"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"
"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins."
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
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"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."
"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
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