

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
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“Among his various possible beings each man always finds one which is his genuine and authentic being. The voice which calls him to that authentic being is what we call “vocation.” But the majority of men devote themselves to silencing that voice of the vocation and refusing to hear it. They manage to make a noise within themselves … to distract their own attention in order not to hear it; and they defraud themselves by substituting for their genuine selves a false course of life. —JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET”
― Mastery
― Mastery

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been truly outstanding, so that, if he is not quite as skillful as they, at least some of their ability may rub off on him.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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