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• Earth and sea merged, the sea tossed itself in the air in a fantastic dance, into the shapes of men and horses…
• There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill…
• But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world…
• I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … .…
• Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt…
• In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you…
• Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what…
• Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the…
• I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.
• When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
• No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to…
• What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the…

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