"How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?"
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"A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free."
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"But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know."
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"Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion."
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"I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself."
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"And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury."
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"To think is an act. To feel is a fact."
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"All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort."
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"I work only with lost and founds."
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"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."
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"Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence."
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"And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me."
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"So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing."
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"And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes."
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"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."
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"I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers."
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"Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy."
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"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."
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"Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant."
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"Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed"
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