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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One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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

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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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

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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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I am rooted, but I flow.

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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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