We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

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Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be

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