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"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
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"There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemistsCould re-create the rose with all its membersFrom its own ashes, but without the bloom, Without the lost perfume Ah me! what wonder-working, occult scienceCan from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore?What craft of alchemy can bid defianceTo time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?"
"To desire to change one's past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change."
"By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!"
"Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material."
"Divine power transforms us, to be the better person, we ought to be."
"As a pearl is formed and its layers grow, a rich iridescence begins to glow. The oyster has taken what was at first an irritation and intrusion and uses it to enrich its value. How can you coat or frame the changes in your life to harvest beauty, brilliance, and wisdom?"
"In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay."
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
"The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself."
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"There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink."
"I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less."
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