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"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
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"When you're there for others, you're ahead of everyone."
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"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."
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Personal Development
"Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself."
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Personal Development
"Celebrate your life, you are your own light."
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"To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity."
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"The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself."
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"Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough."
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"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."
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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."
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"The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you."
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"I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again."
Writing
"The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart."
Life
"A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time."
Time
"As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net."
Life
"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."
Age
"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""
God
"You can't test courage cautiously."
Courage
"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
Writing
"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
Self
"Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark."
Imagination
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