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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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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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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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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

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

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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