You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.
J. K. ROWLINGPoverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
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Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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A good first impression can work wonders.
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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