Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction of writing -- one can impersonate so many people.

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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

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It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.

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To work -- to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

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I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

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Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

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