You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

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

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

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

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

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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