Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. - Jean Rhys

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Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.

Jean Rhys

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

Ankles, Heavy, Think, Thinking, Weight

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I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

Being Yourself, Belong, Care, I Dont Care, Life, Part

My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.

Nice, Simple, Glasses, Streets, Happy, Monotonous

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

Feeding, Huge, Lakes, Rivers, Trickles, Writing

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Beautiful, Longer, Successful, Thing, Wish

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

Away, Beautiful, Fall, Long, Time

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Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

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We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

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Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins. " These great men. . . should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

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