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“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.”
“It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.”
“Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.”
“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows.”
“So long as we love life for itself, we seldom dread the losing it.”
“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
“If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it.”
“The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.”
“Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.”
“Any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed.”
“I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.”
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.”
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”