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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."
"I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns."
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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."
"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
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