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

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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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

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

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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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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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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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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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