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- I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make…
- Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
- All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
- Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
- Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits…
- A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog,…
- I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
- Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.
- Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
- Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes…
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