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"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
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"She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there."

"It's her black wings that make her beautiful."

"How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower."

"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."

"How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!"

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."

"The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside."

"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."

"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be."

"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."

"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."
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