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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

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

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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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

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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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