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"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
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"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
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"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
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"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
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"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
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"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
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"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
Art
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
Faith
"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
Travel
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
Nature
"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
Existence
"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
Friendship
"The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it."
Art
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being
"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."
Poetry
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