Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

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The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.

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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

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