"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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"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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"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Don't be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."

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"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Be decisive and handle objections as they come, don't relay on others much and don't look to others to determine if you're acting right or wrong. Do what feels right for you."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Man

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

Faith

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

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"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."

Family

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

Art

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

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"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."

Life

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Music

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

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