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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.