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1 " The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. "
2 " What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? "
― Patricia Highsmith , Strangers on a Train
3 " A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon , All of Grace
4 " It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth nothing or he is worth something. If he is worth something then he will try to be worth something more as is only normal in anyone who wants to get on. I can think of no other way to explain artistic development. "
― Maurice Chevalier
5 " [M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. "
― John Locke , An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
6 " The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. "
― Pearl S. Buck
