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The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voil? une chose!

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Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

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I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

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Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

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I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

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I crossed the Pyrenees in December, nearly got frozen to death in a blizzard and arrived carrying a violin, a camera and books.

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This is only a small story, it can only interest my family and a few neighbours.

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That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

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Well, he was trying to get home - aren't we all, really, in the end?

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I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

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I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

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I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

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It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

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But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

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We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

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What happened was unpredictable but it also reminded many readers of their beginnings and their family recollections.

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