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" How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. "

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" Dreams are necessary to life. "

" Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. "

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" A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. "

" People living deeply have no fear of death. "

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" The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. "

" Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. "

" Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. "

" It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. "

" Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. "

" Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. "

" I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. "

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" We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. "

" What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? "

" Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. "

" It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. "

" There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "

" Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. "

" The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. "

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" Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "

" The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. "

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" If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. "