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What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
I tend to think that the longer you look at a thing, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
In the silence of the desert, you can hear the heartbeat of the earth.
In the silence of the land, you can hear the voices of our ancestors.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.