How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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A light here required a shadow there.

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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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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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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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I am rooted, but I flow.

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

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

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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