Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

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Find your myth and live with it.

Carl Jung

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When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention.

George Orwell

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Literature nowadays is a trade…the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

George Gissing

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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Wallace Stevens

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To float like a cloud, you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

Robert Genn

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What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally surrounded by our fellow-men, are together with no one but ourselves?

Hannah Arendt

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information.

Dr Samuel Johnson

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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

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