No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
I am rooted, but I flow.
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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.
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.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.
Words belong to each other.
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Thoughts without words… Can that be?
A light here required a shadow there.
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