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It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.

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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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I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
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To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
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I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
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To be a person is to have a story to tell.
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I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.
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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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Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
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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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While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.
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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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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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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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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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The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.
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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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There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.
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I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
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I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
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