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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
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In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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She saw time naïvely as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewhere. If you were lucky, you got somewhere worth getting to.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
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Edward Smith: Would you like to see your pictures on as many walls as possible, then?Andy Warhol: Uh, no, I like them in closets.
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Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
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What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
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I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
