"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book."
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding."
"love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another."
"Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success."
"She brews a bruise on my heart, and drinks it like a beer. She calls it love, but she would, because she’s drunk on my torment."
"Give up isn't going to helpKeep going on will help"
"The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth."
"I was nervous. Like an ice cube, I just froze up. Then I melted in some strange guy’s drink."
"Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'"
"But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much."
"I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor."
"From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood."
"Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life."
"This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to stop thinking about you."
"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."
"You have to imaginea waiting that is not impatientbecause it is timeless."
"Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.- Leo"
"His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive."
"As we learn, grow and prosper, consciousness takes on new expressions and intrinsically searches for purpose and meaning."
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