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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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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

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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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