You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.

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Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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