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"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
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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."
"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."
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"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."
"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."
"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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"You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing."
"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
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"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."
"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
"The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion."
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