"Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated."

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"Until and unless Self-realisation is attained, Knowledge-Absolute is gained, there is ever the ebb and flow, the constant see-saw between the animal and the man in every human being. The beast or the …"

— Swami Sivananda

Medicine1887–1963

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"I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience."

— Edward Hopper

Art1882–1967

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— Alfred de Musset

Literature1810–1857

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