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"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

"There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma)."

"I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living."

"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."

"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."

"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."

"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."

"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."
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