Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.Jean Toomer
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.
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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
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