"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Beginning, First, Understanding

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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

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"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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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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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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

H. G. Wells, English Author

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

Stephen King, American Author

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"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."

Marc Davis, American Artist

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"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"

Kate Chopin, American Author

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."

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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."

Doubt

"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable."

Life

"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"

Emotion

"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."

Love

"One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party."

Politics

"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."

Fire

"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."

Possibility

"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."

Introspection

"My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me."

Existence

"All right then, I'll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there's a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart."

Emotion