"You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom."
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"Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too."
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"Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary."
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"The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise."
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"No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made."
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"... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all."
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"Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels."
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"... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?"
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"There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide."
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"I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination."
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"The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best."
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"It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past."
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"Party politics is now a real farce."
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"And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim."
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"When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects."
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"You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing."
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"... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot."
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"Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices."
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"To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!"
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"My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me."
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