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“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
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“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
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“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared,
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”
― Nowhere Man
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”
― Nowhere Man
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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