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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."
"Progress is discovering what you can do without."
"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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