"I dream too much, work too little."
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"It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles."
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"I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have."
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"Character is fate."
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"...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real."
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"You smile. No, it is not fatal."
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"I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful."
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"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?"
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"Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity."
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"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."
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"Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company."
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"Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!"
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"What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness."
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"I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked."
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"A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly."
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"Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image."
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"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass."
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"Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser."
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"As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical."
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"God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?"
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