

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”
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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].

“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. ”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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