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Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it the capital of desire I call it it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Age: 75 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 17
Died: 1984
Died: April 28
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I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
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What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.
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Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
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A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
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... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.
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When I teach people, I marry them.
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Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.
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Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.
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There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
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I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
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Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
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When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
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