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"When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others."
"If you're not afraid of working hard, self-reliance comes easy!"
"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."
"My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones."
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
"Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
"No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me."
"Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!"
"The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car."
"Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a rambling-rose design. Instead I'm on the rue des Cordeliers in pursuit of a baguette, with a three-inch blade for comfort."
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"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."
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