One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life — Anaïs Nin
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap [is] the most difficult to make—to part with one’s faith, one’s love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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H. L. Mencken
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
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