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After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...

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...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring...

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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...

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There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart con...

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Sometimes people are very predictable: they want a kitten in June, for example, and come the first o...

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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in t...

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The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking ...

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What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach...

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Clarice LispectorThe Passion According to G.H.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do...

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I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep try...

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We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains...

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself a...

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Kingsley AmisThe Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my su...

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There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths....

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for?