Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

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