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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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“Man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
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“Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.”
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“Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.”
― Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women
― Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women
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