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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

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Even paranoids have real enemies.

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

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Katherine Mansfield

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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

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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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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

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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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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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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

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I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

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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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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

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