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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?"

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Tennessee Williams Playwright
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"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless."

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