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"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it."
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"We cannot hope to change a nation without facing trials and persecution in the process."

"In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment."

"Sometimes you don't even know how strong you are, the devil sees it before you do and attacks."

"You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing."
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"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."


"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."


"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."


"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."


"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."


"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."


"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
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