Erica Jong

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• If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

  Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

  • Risk

• I have accepted fear as a part of life⁠—specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

  • Fear

• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

  How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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