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 The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.  Counting both times I cheated this week, I won at solitaire twice. Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you. There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships! The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier and hoarser than his wife. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. Set thine house in order. - Bible 
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