If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy!
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To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
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Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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