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"I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses."
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"Once you have produced your best self, then you will be able to produce new seeds and fruits after your kind."
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Personal Development
"Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue."
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Personal Development
"Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly."
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"Be the master of your life."
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"Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you."
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"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
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"We live in a world where people are so busy trying to find someone that's "good enough" for them, that they have failed to stop and ask themselves if they are in fact good enough for other people! This is the result of a feeling of false entitlement that has been instilled in the minds of people today. "Everyone" deserves "the best" from the "Universe" however, nobody is teaching anybody to stop and try to become the best for their own selves and for other people. When everybody thinks they are the best, everybody falls short of the best that they can actually be."
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"The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves."
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"Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard."
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"It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself."
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"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
Knowledge
"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."
Urbanism
"Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
Strategy
"Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do."
Society
"Marco's answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in the Great Khan's head. That is to say, between the two of them it did not matter whether questions and solutions were uttered aloud or whether each of the two went on pondering in silence. In fact, they were silent, their eyes half-closed, reclining on cushions, swaying in hammocks, smoking long amber pipes.Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there."
Exploration
"Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence."
Education
"How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shape and disappear without anyone's ever writing them there were not interposed that uncomfortable partition which is my person! Style, taste, individual philosophy, subjectivity, cultural background, real experience, psychology, talent, tricks of the trade: all the elements that make what I write recognizable as mine seem to me a cage that restricts my possibilities. If I were only a hand, a severed hand that grasps a pen and writes...who would move this hand? The anonymous throng? The spirit of the times? The collective unconscious? I do not know."
Writing
"I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except marginally and by chance; therefore it deserves no interest at all, the true nature of things being revealed only in disintegration."
Philosophy
"Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did."
Grief
"It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books."
Literature
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