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"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."
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"Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death."
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"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
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"Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives."
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"The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school."
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Personal Development
"They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them."
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"I know what happens a the end of falling-landing."
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"Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending."
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Personal Development
"You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she passed before she accepted you. As she stood there in front of you the other day, she plunged into it. She said 'Why not?' to something which, a few hours earlier, had been inconceivable. She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto."
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"Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all."
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"There was only one option left, and it was letting go."
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"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
Time
"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
Friendship
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
Man
"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters."
Criticism
"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
Heart
"Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work."
Strength
"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot."
Time
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."
Friendship
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns."
People
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."
Ambition
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