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

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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

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

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