"What release to write so that one forgets……" — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk."
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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166 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
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So many things we love are you!
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
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Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
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One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not…
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...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real…
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Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.
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Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst…
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is…
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