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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

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The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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Answer Boys Business Keys Question Rock Word
In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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Detached Explore Journey Memories Order Travel
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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Ditch Guilt Hurt Invisibility Pain Sorror
I am nobody but myself.
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Motivation Myself Nobody One Liner Sefl Love Task
Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.” Stephen Covey “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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Ahead Beginning End Love Lying Motivation Support
Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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Butterfly Friend Happy Journey Long Love Order Plan Travel
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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Conflict Crafts Discuss Immediate Novel Occupation Serious
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Action Definition Hibernation Implement Preparation
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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Coveive Live Lose Mind Pattern Plan Sight
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Bridge Dream Education High School Graduation Success
the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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Clock Empty Life Perfect Positive Sirens Tick Trying Urgency Value
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Control Enjoy Failure Happy Humanity Inspiring Life

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

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