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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.”
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“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― Vertigo
― Vertigo
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
― Hero With a Thousand Faces
― Hero With a Thousand Faces
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