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"I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."
"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."
"To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do."
"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
"The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself."
"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."
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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
"There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice."
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."
"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe."
"Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!"
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