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"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
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"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

"Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?"

"There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all."

"The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
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"Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom."


"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."


"Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel."
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