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  1. Bryce Courtenay _ The Power of One

    Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.
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  2. Bryce Courtenay _ The Power of One

    Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.
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  3. Jean-Paul Sartre _ The Flies

    I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? You. But you should not have created me free.
    book-quoteself-determinationfreedomhumanity

  4. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." {Elizabeth Bennett}
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  5. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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  6. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
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  7. Jane Austen _ Persuasion

    I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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  8. Pearl S. Buck _ My Several Worlds

    Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.
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  9. Ayn Rand _ We the Living

    Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want-isn't that life itself? And who-in this damned universe-who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?
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  10. Paul Auster _ Moon Palace

    I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.I'm talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That's the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die."
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  11. Dr. Seuss _ Oh, The Places You'll Go!

    Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.
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  12. Maya Angelou _ Letter to My Daughter

    You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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