How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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

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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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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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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