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    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    tags: inspirational-ship-storms
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    tags: life
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
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    Sylvia Plath
    “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
    "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
    "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
    tags: carpe-diem, future, present
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    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Virginia Woolf
    “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
    tags: calming, reassuring, true
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Patti Smith
    “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Patti Smith
    “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt
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    Clarice Lispector
    “Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
    ― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela
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    Clarice Lispector
    “I am only true when I’m alone.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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    Joan Didion
    “To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Joan Didion
    “Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
    ― Joan Didion, Blue Nights
    tags: alone, complain, time, whine, work
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    Joan Didion
    “Time is the school in which we learn”
    ― Joan Didion
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    Toni Morrison
    “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: inspiration
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    Toni Morrison
    “I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more”
    ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
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    “It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women.
    It's more like "Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.”
    ― Lauryn Hill
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    Susan Sontag
    “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality
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    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, eagerness
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    Susan Sontag
    “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: change, life, waiting
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    Napoleon Hill
    “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
    ― Napoleon Hill
    tags: achievement, inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: be-yourself, self-determination
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    Maya Angelou
    “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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