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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

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If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

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Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

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Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

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There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

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The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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