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"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."
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"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
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"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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"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."
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"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!"
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"The gods help them that help themselves."
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"If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone."
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"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."
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"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself."
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"Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without wheels. If you don't have these three things, you're either a slave or an animal. Any idea about being social or human has been cleverly associated with these two things, in order to make believe that being a social animal is the ideal to aspire for, especially if such animal is enslaved by a certain amount of ideals promoted by the system that gives him life and cuts it off as soon as he shows himself undeserving."
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"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
Gratitude
"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."
Illusion
"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."
Self-control
"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."
Achievement
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Kindness
"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."
Character
"United we stand, divided we fall."
Unity
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
Trust
"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety."
Humility
"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
Achievement
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