I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren9t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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"To survive, you must tell stories."

- Umberto Eco

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"To survive, we must tell stories."

- Umberto Eco

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"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."

- Umberto Eco

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"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."

- Umberto Eco

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"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

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"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

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