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

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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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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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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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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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

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