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"I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities."
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"Never settle; if it doesn't feel right, it's not suppose to."
"Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away."
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"Take a moral inventory of ways you may be self-sabotaging and then take proactive steps to change them."
"Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be."
"The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical."
"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
"Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain."
"I'm adaptable. A nomad, my mom always says." Zoe raised an eyebrow. "Your mom?" "Well I wasn't spawned."
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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."
"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up."
"No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide."
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."
"The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains."
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