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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
 Paul Valery

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
 Paul Valery
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
 Paul Valery
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.
 Paul Valery
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
 Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
 Paul Valery