"It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me."
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"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you."
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"I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live."
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"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more."
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"I wish you’d find the exit out of my head."
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"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
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"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."
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"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."
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"I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night."
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"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences."
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"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination."
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"Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness"
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"It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all."
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"How we need another soul to cling to."
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"There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds."
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"I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I."
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"I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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"And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches."
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"I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be."
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"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."
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