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" During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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" Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. "

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" Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. "

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" The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. "

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