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I do not see eye to eye with the camera.

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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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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.
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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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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
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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 think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.
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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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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
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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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our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
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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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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
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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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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
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There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.
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It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
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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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