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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
― James Baldwin

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
― Seneca

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”
― D. Elton Trueblood