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.

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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