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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget.’
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We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.
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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life’s crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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