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"She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases."
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"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."

"To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity."

"The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself."

"Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough."

"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."

"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."

"The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you."
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"As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation."

"Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting."

"I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world."

"The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places."

"This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be."

"I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone."

"The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return."

"There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense."

"Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right."
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