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How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?


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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.



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The profoundest distances are never geographical.



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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.



There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.



Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time is not a road - it is a room.



The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.



There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.



In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.



Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.



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An answer is always a form of death.





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