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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I am rooted, but I flow.

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

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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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