Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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"Courage, dear heart."

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"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

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"The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."

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"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."

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"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."

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