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"How many things can I do without?"
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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

"The less you need, the more you live."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."

"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
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"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."

"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
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