"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." ••Gustave Flaubert

 "Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words
And never stops at all."
••Emily Dickinson

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"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
••Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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