"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

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"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now.

Choose."

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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will say the trust."

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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

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"To define is to limit."

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"Always forgive your ennemis; nothing annoys them so much."

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"Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living."

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"Children begin to loves their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

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"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person."

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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."