What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

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