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

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

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

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

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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 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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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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

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