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

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

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

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

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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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

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