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

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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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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

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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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I am rooted, but I flow.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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