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"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
"Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!"
"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."
"Mastery does not exist."
"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."
"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."
"The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop."
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"I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology."
"Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism."
"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."
"He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety."
"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
"I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government."
"And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am going to create a tiger.Oh incompetence! Never do my dreams engender the wild beast I longed for.The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or bird."
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