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"She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors."
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"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter."

"Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness."

"Vice can be learnt even without a teacher."

"What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown."

"To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages."
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"My mind cannot grasp forever,' she told him. 'There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?"

"Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?"

"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."

"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"

"There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything."

"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"

"But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him."
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