No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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Love had a thousand shapes.

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

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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

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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

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

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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

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

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