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"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known..." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?" - Marianne Williamson

"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion...." - Joseph Conrad

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them..." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately..." - John Steinbeck

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting..." - E. E. Cummings

"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody...." - J.D. Salinger

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets..." - Arthur Miller

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it...." - Ernest Hemingway