Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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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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I am rooted, but I flow.

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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

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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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