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Melissa
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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“For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.”
― A Tale for the Time Being
― A Tale for the Time Being
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
“One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it with a perseverance that nothing can shatter - thirst for neither approval nor financial profit. Do not be discouraged by the censure that might fall upon one's works - one must be armoured with a strong conviction which makes one go straight ahead fearing no obstacle. An unremitting task […] an unassailable conscience. (From a sketchbook of 1847).”
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