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

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A light here required a shadow there.

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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

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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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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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Love had a thousand shapes.

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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

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