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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

Henry Miller

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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Douglas Adams

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Affection conquers all obstacles, and the weakest and most inefficient girl that ever stepped, if she have strong within' her that love which, in all its sacred intensity, knows no fear, shall indeed accomplish much.

Edward Lloyd

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Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

Cormac McCarthy

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Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.

John Burroughs

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There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

George Santayana

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I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

J.K. Rowling

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