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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."

"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."

"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist."

"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."

"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."
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