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"I don't want everyone to like me, I should think less of myself if some people did."
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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."

"Your everyday actions will define you and your virtue."

"Life reality tells us that to grow physically, you first need to grow inwardly."

"Be the master of your life."

"Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you."

"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."

"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."

"The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves."

"It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself."

"Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!"
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"That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form akmost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything."

"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."

"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."

"One never said the things one wanted - one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something."

"He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures."

"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth."
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