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"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."
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Personal Development

"Nice passion is reading."
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Personal Development

"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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Personal Development

"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."
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Personal Development

"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."
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Personal Development

"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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Personal Development

"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."
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Personal Development

"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
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Personal Development

"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
Hope

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
Wisdom

"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
Courage

"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
Humor

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
Life

"There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."
Philosophy

"There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: - through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom). and then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If."
Philosophy

"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung."
Literature

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
Fear

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?"
Self
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