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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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Personal Development

"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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Personal Development

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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Personal Development

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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Personal Development

"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."
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Personal Development

"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."
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Personal Development

"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."
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Personal Development

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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Personal Development

"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
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"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
Communication

"I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me."
Relationship

"What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance."
Life

"Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless - so sure. So generous and so demanding."
Emotion

"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
Will

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
Life

"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
People

"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."
Evil

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Living

"Where there is murder, anything can happen."
Danger
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