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"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."
"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."
"The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she's right."
"The quieter the mind the louder the soul."
"The saddest day in the woods is when birds run out of happy songs to sing."
"Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it."
"The calmest part of the storm is not in its eye, but in your own soul."
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"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it."
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."
"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."
"The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."
"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
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