"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

Writing, Life, Experience, Reflection

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"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."

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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

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"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"

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"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

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"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."

Happiness

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

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"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Courage

"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."

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"What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again."

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