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

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A light here required a shadow there.

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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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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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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.

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

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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