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"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
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"How many things can I do without?"
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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
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"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."
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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
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"Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist."
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"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
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"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
Age
"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
Integrity
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance."
Humor
"Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?"
Love
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
Age
"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."
Soul
"And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as though her heart would break. But her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer."
Emotion
"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."
Baby
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