I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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

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

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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

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