"Shall I teach you what knowledge?When you know a thing, say that you know it;when you do not know a thing,admit that you do not know it.That is knowledge"
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"Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!"
"But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort."
"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."
"Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?"
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."
"Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?"
"I plan to learn enough to read you like a book."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"...You mistake other people’s success as your own failure..."
"...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental."
"I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words."
"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."
"Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
"Life is a land of opportunity to love, live, and enjoy beauty."
"We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."
"Stairs, are they going up or are they going down? They’re so confusing! If love were a physical thing, it would be stairs."
"She’s twelve hours in the future, and exactly half a world away. No matter how hard I try, I will always be a part of her past."
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