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To be a person is to have a story to tell.

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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
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Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.
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Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.
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In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.
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A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
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Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
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You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
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If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
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To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
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In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion which I had inherited from my father himself-all of which my father thought I had better rid myself of before I married.
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For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
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One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
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There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
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And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
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