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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Weak Foolish Gift Education
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Course Opposite Custom
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood Infinity Combinations Truth
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Great Talent Act Writing
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man Born Free Chains
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Man Natural Authority Fellow
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness Good Account Cook
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Wisdom Find Greater Kindness
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Virtue State War Live
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Born Speak Life Man
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What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Greatest Ambition Life Die
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Story Beginning End Order
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life Moment Lose Eternal
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man Free World Responsible
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We Act Passion Feel
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words Treacherous Powerful Think
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man Responsible Nature Choices
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics Science Demonstrate Wrong
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Commitment Act Word
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Day Left Dawn Dusk
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Afraid Son Honest Citizen
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Powerful You Matter Somebody
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Professionalism Experience Accomplish Access
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

People Feel Self Whole
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Write Read Fiction Change
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Write Group Change Consciousness
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Believe Communication Ideas People
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Everything Writing Language Listening
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

We Make Lasts Outlives
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don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Understand People Art Mind
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creative Work Difficult Tests
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art Saved Depression Innocence
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Truth Love Life Heart
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Create Past Fiction Language
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Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Religion Spiritual Values Corrupted
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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Love Desire Reason Temptation
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Language Truth Lie Precise
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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

Language Finding Place Hiding
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to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Change Understand Nature Evil
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Fiction and poetry are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry Medicines Reality Imagination
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I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Accept Life Ordinary Shape
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.

History Means Denying Past
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Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Love Strength Reliable Rising
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

Think Worlds Human Forms
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Fate Hang on Moment Changed
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I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Important Whatever Time Safe
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Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art Enchantment Artist Spells
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

Love Drown Kills Neglect
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Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.
Love Experiment Happens Surprising
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Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Intensity Desire Receive Light
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