"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert on potential
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

Frost, Robert on secrets
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"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on guilt
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship"

Rilke, Rainer Maria on relationship
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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

Asimov, Isaac on books - reading
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"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on ignorance
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"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by."

Adler, Felix on heroes and heroism
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"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."

Beauvoir, Simone De on guilt   

"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."

Renard, Jules on talent   

"Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas."

Maclaren, Alexander on difficulties
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."

Byron, Lord on absurdity
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

Hobbes, Thomas on absurdity
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"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

Liebling, A. J. on writers and writing   

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on writers and writing
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"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing
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"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Lewis, Cecil Day on writers and writing
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"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others."

Moliere on writers and writing
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"Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume."

Mencken, H. L. on speakers and speaking
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