The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.
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Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
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The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
