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The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

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Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

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Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

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The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

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It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

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When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

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America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

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The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

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After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

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How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

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