When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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This joy you feel is life.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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