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"And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists."
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"Everything that you wish to know, or desire for life, exists in you. All you have to do is take your attention inward and begin your search within."
"I take showers to think."
"Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug."
"When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird's eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect."
"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."
"Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense.''Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works.' He says 'Somehow the mixture of two things is genius."
"Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown."
"When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?"
"If you feel that you are going without go within."
"In this, journey, of reaching, to myself, I have had, many a, thoroughfares, goodbye affairs, reality checks, and, lovely overwhelms."
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