It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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

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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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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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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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