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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
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"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."
"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
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"For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom."
"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."
"Never let a day be your control factor."
"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."
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