"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
-Doris Lessing
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"When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.“
-Doris Lessing
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"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."
-Doris Lessing
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
-Doris Lessing
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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
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"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
-Virginia Woolf
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
-Pythagoras
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
-Lana Del Rey
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
-Marvin Gaye
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart
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