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

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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

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

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

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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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