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"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."

Music, Play

"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."

Beauty, Self

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

Genius, Now, Saying

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."

Happiness, Fame

"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."

Criticism, First, Poets

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

Desire, Intention, Public, Vocation

"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."

Life, Time, Soul, Emotions

"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."

Genius, Thought, Heart, May

"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."

Family, Life, Old, Years

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."

Truth, Names

Exlpore more Opportunity quotes

"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Opportunity,

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

Opportunity, May, Now, Right

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author

Opportunity, Dance

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."

Mark Twain, American Author

Opportunity,

"America is another name for opportunity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Opportunity, America, Name

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

Opportunity, Defeat, Misfortune

"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Opportunity, People, Deeds, Old

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Opportunity, Hope, Quick, Youth

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Opportunity, Man, Want

"Let the path be open to talent."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Opportunity, Talent, Open