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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. - Author object (297)

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. - Author object (297)

The creative adult is the child who has survived. - Author object (297)

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. - Author object (297)

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. - Author object (297)

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. - Author object (297)

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. - Author object (297)

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. - Author object (297)

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. - Author object (297)

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. - Author object (297)

Truth is a matter of the imagination. - Author object (297)

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. - Author object (23)

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. - Author object (23)

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot - Author object (23)

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. - Author object (23)

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. - Author object (23)

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme. - Author object (23)

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. - Author object (23)

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. - Author object (23)

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality. - Author object (23)