I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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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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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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