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"Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending."
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"They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began."

"This change did not bring me into the community of the others, did not make me closer to anyone, but actually made me even lonelier. My reformation seemed to point in the direction ofDemian, but even this was a distant fate. I did not know myself, for I was too deeply involved. It had begunwith Beatrice, but for some time I had been living in such an unreal world with my paintings and my thoughtsof Demian that I'd forgotten all about her, too. I could not have uttered a single word about my dreams andexpectations, my inner change, to anyone, not even if I had wanted to. But how could I have wanted to?"

"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."

"We move between two darknesses."

"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."

"I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same."

"Let go of what was and embrace what to be."

"It is important to note that a transitional phase has to be uncomfortable for you to move on to the next stage, lest procrastination stymies you."

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."

"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."

"There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid."

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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