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"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."
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Personal Development
"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."
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Personal Development
"By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting."
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Personal Development
"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
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Personal Development
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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Personal Development
"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
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Personal Development
"Where there is a risk, there is a wealth."
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Personal Development
"If safety is my goal, living life is not."
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"You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky."
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"Life is a game of chance. You ought to play the game."
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"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
Friendship
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
Joy
"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."
Happiness
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
Music
"I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day."
Books
"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."
Opportunity
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