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- In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two…
- One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
- A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
- It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.
- One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
- Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact,…
- It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a…
- The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives,…
- No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one…
- For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and…
- Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only…
- It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!
- One must lose one's life in order to find it.
- There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They…
- 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…
- My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
- Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in…
- If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.
- Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again,…
- The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach -…
- For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
- One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
- 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.
- For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
- How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
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