"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Beginning, First, Understanding

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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"The past is but the past of a beginning."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Everything started as nothing."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"The meaning of life is that it ends."

Meaning

"If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything."

Awareness

"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

Morality

"What is written is merely the dregs of experience."

Experience

"So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up there, don't worry, just leap up another flight of stairs. As long as you don't stop climbing, the stairs won't end, under your climbing feet they will go on growing upwards."

Motivation

"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

Writing

"Fear of night. Fear of not night."

Fear

"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."

Expression

"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."

Expression

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

Bible