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"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
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"If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!"
"The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception."
"You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!"
"Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence."
"Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!"
"One part of my consciousness serves only one realm."
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"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds."
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."
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