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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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