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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.

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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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Beautiful Despair Secret
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Mad Silence Stories
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Attention Common Magic
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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Inspiring Night Water
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.
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Homeless Miserable Wit
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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Beautiful Gun Reality
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft
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Office Perfect Writing
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three
People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
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Create History People Protected Transformer
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.

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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.

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