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Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

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I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
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It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!
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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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For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
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death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
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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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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
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It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
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The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.
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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
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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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Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water. Salt water? I asked him. Yes, he said, in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.
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What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.
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through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth
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I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again it is there deep within you.
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I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature and the laws of the Cosmos if we would from the beginning recognize its originator and upholder as being of the female sex.
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There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
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