One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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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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Love had a thousand shapes.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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