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"In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams."
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"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
"Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on."
"My life is my book, but I can't read it."
"Every person's story contains chapters of pain and loss, victory and defeat, love and hate, pride and prejudice, courage and fear, faith and self-distrust, charity and kindness, selfishness and jealously. Every person's story also contains folios of hopefulness and truthfulness, deceit and despair, action and change, passion and compassion, excitement and boredom, birth and creation, mutation and defect, generation and preservation, delusions and illusions, imagination and fantasy, bafflement and puzzlement. What makes a person's selfsame story unique is how he or she organizes the pure and impure forces that comprise them, how they respond to internal and external crisis, if they act in a safeguarding and humble manner, or lead a self-seeking and destructive existence."
"We write our personal story as intermittent authors; the narrator is always searching for a unitive point of view. We strive to perceive oneself from a unified perspective, but it is virtually impossible to do so. Human perception of the self is an illusion. We constantly sift through shifting memories. We experience the present under the fragrance cast by the past and under the illusionary aura of the future."
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone."
"It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter."
"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
"Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today."
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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
"There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course."
"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
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