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"For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on the top of St Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet."
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"For what it's worth: trust your feelings. I can't promise that you'll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it."
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"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."
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"What you risk reveals what you value."
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"By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting."
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"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
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"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
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"Where there is a risk, there is a wealth."
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"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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"Accidents are built into the road."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
Habit
"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."
Solitude
"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"
Time
"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."
Creativity
"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
Truth
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
History
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
War
"They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought, and no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation, shower down from the unbroken surface."
Nature
"The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living."
Identity
"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."
Philosophy
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