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“God knows I'm no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.”
“I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”
“to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
“My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”
“I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.”
“It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.”
“To know oneself one should assert oneself.”
“Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.”
“All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.”
“You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.”
“Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.”
“Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.”
“It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.”
“Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.”
“Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.”
“The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.”
“When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.”
“It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.”
“Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.”
“In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.”
