To shrug it all off and wipe it clean--every annoyance and distraction--and reach utter stillness. Child's play. Book V
Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well. Mark Twain's Notebook
“I am caught in a tide of sorrow and love which is carrying me away from writing.” (17 July 1920) Letters To Milena
“Fortune . . . shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.” The Prince
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