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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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Personal Development
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
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"In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement."
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Personal Development
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"I have X'd myself from your world."
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"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
Love
"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
Fiction
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
Reading
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
Friendship
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
Art
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
Attention
"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."
Law
"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
World
"Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space."
Time
"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."
Art
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