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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
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"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."
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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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"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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"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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"If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone."
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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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"The gods help them that help themselves."
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"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."
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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."
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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
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"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
Soul
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
Beauty
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
Danger
"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges."
Awareness
"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."
Time
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
Death
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
Self-Reliance
"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop."
Art
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
Art
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
Perfection
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