Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

A. S. Byatt's Popular Quotes

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

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Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

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Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

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Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expec…

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Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong.

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