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“Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom. Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated â€� it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.”
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“He explained that our amount of resilience isn’t fixed, so I should be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone.”
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“To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.”
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“All these young French poets, like the rest of the people, lived for the joy of living in its sublimest form, the creative joy in work.”
― The World of Yesterday
― The World of Yesterday
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”
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― How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
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