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- One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
- Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
- These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
- I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)
- People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died…
- But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
- Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and…
- Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of…
- I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be…
- I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
- I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
- One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
- After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
- ...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a…
- My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.
- When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility.…
- I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle