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"For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood."
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"Don't surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don't be a Slave, be Brave."
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"We ought to live the fullness of life."
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"Stand tall like a tower."
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"When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living."
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"If you try you would never be alone, because the whole world is tired of loneliness."
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"Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless."
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"Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it."
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"Believe in yourself and the power of your inner strength."
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"Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure."
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"Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it."
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"His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed."
Emotion


"There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing."
Power


"You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."
Humor


"Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried."
Feminism


"In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark."
Marriage


"He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves."
Observation


"As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire."
Creativity


"Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled. (Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)"
Tragedy


"Do you look like the photograph on your book jackets? Authors, I find, seldom do."
Perception


"Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel."
Fiction
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