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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, ...more

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...more

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

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The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bri...more

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We change whether we like it or not.

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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomor...more

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I wish to say what I think and feel today with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of a...more

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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A man is known by the books he reads.