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First you imitate, then you innovate.

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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

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Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated

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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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