No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.
to teach without zest is a crime.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you
I am rooted, but I flow.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
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