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• There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as…
• As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of…
• I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.…
• It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks…
• I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to…
• To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,…
• Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…
• Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
• Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
• Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…
• We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
• That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect…

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