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"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
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"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."
"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."
"I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her."
"I would not have survived that dark time if it weren't for Cloudtail. He gave me another destiny, and I knew that no matter what I looked like, I would be all right. As long as Cloudtail loved me, I was no longer Lostface, but Brightheart."
"Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat!"
"There are only do and don't, can or can't is just an excuse."
"If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time."
"You get a: 'Can Do Attitude,' by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned too. Raise yourself to excellence."
"If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!"
"Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
"It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence."
"For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again."
"So it came to this, that- against the grain, no doubt-the condemned man had to hope the apparatus was in good working order! This, I thought, was a flaw in the system; and, on the face of it, my view was sound enough. On the other hand, I had to admit it proved the efficiency of the system. It came to this; the man under sentence was obliged to collaborate mentally, it was in his interest that all should go off without a hitch."
"Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels."
"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."
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