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“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
― Gertrude Stein
― Gertrude Stein
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud
― Sigmund Freud
“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
― Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
― Virginia Woolf
― Virginia Woolf
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