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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."

"Don't let someone rearrange your path because they lost sight of their own."

"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."

"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."

"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."

"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?"

"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."

"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."

"I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together."

"Be independent, and do what you will."
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"There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before."

"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."

"Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing."
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