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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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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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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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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

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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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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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

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