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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."

"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."

"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."

"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

"Progress is discovering what you can do without."

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"I'm likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight."

"In with the new, out with the old.' That's what we're told. We have to change, adapt, compromise."

"We are all Clapping Monkeys, but while some of us smile, others look around to see if anyone has noticed."

"Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse."

"Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest."
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