I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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

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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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

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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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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 have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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