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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Mansfield Park
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme - thinking too much.
A Writer's Diary
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
I nourish myself with what's left over of me and it's very little. There is left over however a certain secret silence.
A Breath of Life
It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
Tropic of Capricorn
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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