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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot
― George Eliot
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle
― Madeleine L'Engle
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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