Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

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Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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