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I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all…

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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what…
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But…
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to…
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects…
Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and…
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his…
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that…
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

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The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being… — Henry James
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. — Robert Browning
Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple… — Goswami Kriyananda
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to… — Katherine Anne Porter
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be… — George MacDonald
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart. — Seneca the Younger
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly… — Yaron Brook
In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. — Jules Verne

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