Ruth
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“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don’t. And when they’re running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
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“Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.”
― White
― White
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
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“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.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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