- i'm going to run the risk of being free. - patrick wolf, the libertine
- To smile less, talk less. Conversely, and most important, to mean it when I smile, and to believe what I say & say only what I believe. - Susan Sontag
- Who the hell said you no longer had it in you? - Charles Bukowski
- I needed my mistakes / in their own order / to get me here. - W.S. Merwin, Wild Oats
- If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives. - Lemony Snicket
- Nothing worth doing is easy.
- Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. - Camille Paglia
- Life is difficult, ok? Step up! Step up to the plate! - Camille Paglia
- Home is not where you are born; / home is where all your attempts / to escape cease - Naguib Mahfouz
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus
- To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life. - T.S. Eliot, Norton Lecture (I), 1932
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