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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as...

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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who ...

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out...

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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We a...

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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.

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In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conf...

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No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate...

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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes...

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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more,...