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"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
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"And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none."
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"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."
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"Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it."
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"You reproduce your life by reproducing your gifts and your talents."
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"When you reproduce yourself, you don't spend your life, you multiply it."
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"Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity."
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"It is the time that delivers greatness to people. Therefore if you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it."
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"It is my wish and most cherished hope that God would be pleased with my legacy, that lives would be changed by it, and that the world would be immeasurably better because I was privileged to leave a legacy at all. And if perchance I am fortunate enough to have these things come to pass, I can then rest in the fact that I have lived well."
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"When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story."
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"At the very point that I've taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I've cultivated quite a cemetery."
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"The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about. Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; "tout aboutit en un livre, everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is history or poetry, which are not essentially different."
Philosophy
"And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird."
Creativity
"From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me."
Motivation
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
Act
"We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes."
Waiting
"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."
Mythology
"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."
Reading
"Life itself is a quotation."
Life
"Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction."
Destiny
"There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations."
Literature
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