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"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"The past is but the past of a beginning."
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"To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The first stage of any development is infancy."
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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."
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"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
Performance
"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
Choice
"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."
Work
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
Hope
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."
Books
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
History
"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."
Friendship
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
Nature
"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
Freedom
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