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“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
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“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Action has magic, grace, and power in it.”
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“Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“Selfish father of men!
Cruel, jealous, selfish fear!
Can delight,
Chained in night,
The virgins of youth and morning bear.
'Does spring hide its joy
When buds and blossoms grow?
Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in darkness plow?
'Break this heavy chain,
That does freeze my bones around!
Selfish, vain,
Eternal bane,
That free Love with bondage bound.”
― Songs of Experience
Cruel, jealous, selfish fear!
Can delight,
Chained in night,
The virgins of youth and morning bear.
'Does spring hide its joy
When buds and blossoms grow?
Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in darkness plow?
'Break this heavy chain,
That does freeze my bones around!
Selfish, vain,
Eternal bane,
That free Love with bondage bound.”
― Songs of Experience
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