The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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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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Love had a thousand shapes.

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

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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

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