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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'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."
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"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."
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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."
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"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."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
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"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."
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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."
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"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."
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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
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"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."
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"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."
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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."
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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
Nation

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."
Reality

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
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"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."
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"America is my country and Paris is my hometown."
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