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self-discovery

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don’t have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

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I don’t know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist – you either are or you aren’t – and if you are you’ll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

self-discovery

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

self-discovery

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.

self-discovery

Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will follow you.

self-discovery

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

self-discovery

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.

self-discovery

We travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.