I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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