I want to know who I am before it is too late–before I am no longer the same person–before I become someone different. Although there are days when this seems a furious race against time, there are others when it seems to matter not a tinker's curse.
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
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Alison Goodman
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
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Hermann Hesse
Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
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Mikhail Naimy
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.
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Don Murray
No one knows more about the way you think than you do.
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Seth Godin
More Quotes By Alan Bradley
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned...
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