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“Never take anything in life but flowers, and from flowers, only the perfume ...”
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“... this mysterious thing, artistic talent: the key to so much freedom, the escape from so much suffering.”
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“What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life — the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being ...”
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“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple beautiful sentence.”
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“Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument — as in having a fight.”
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“A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.”
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“If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.”
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“... Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it ...”