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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
"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."
"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
"You don't need extra food, extra water, extra clothing for extra warmth " anything extra. You don't need soap or deodorant. Everything you carry you should need daily."
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
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