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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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