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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
Intimacy is a difficult art.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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.
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.