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 really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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

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

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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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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