"Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul."
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"I'm not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day."
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"Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe."
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"I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape."
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"I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own."
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"All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil."
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"I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing."
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"You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish."
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"It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less."
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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."
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"Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness."
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"Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you."
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"We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape."
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"Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it."
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"Ideas are information taking shape."
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"To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions"
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"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."
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"I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes."
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"As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape."
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"Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic."
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