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“The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.”
― Garson Kanin

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

“The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.”
― Hannah Green, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.”
― Jean Cocteau

“Night came, but unattended with repose.
Alone she came, no sleep their eyes to close.
Alone and black she came; no friendly stars arose.”
― John Dryden

“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
― Walt Kelly

“At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.”
― E.M. Forster

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“How beautiful the world is, and how ugly labyrinths are,' I said, relieved.
'How beautiful the world would be if there was a procedure for moving through labyrinths,' my master replied.”
― Umberto Eco