Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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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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Love had a thousand shapes.

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

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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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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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

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