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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."
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"To stand on a mountain top, you must first create the mountain."

"Every great soul was inspired by another great soul."

"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."

"The secret to success is belief and hard work."

"Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us."

"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."

"Strive toward what you know you must achieve, in confident & courageous manner."

"Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself."

"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."

"To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible."
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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."

"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."

"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."

"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."

"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."

"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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