How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
to teach without zest is a crime.
The way to write well is to live intensely.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Intimacy is a difficult art.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
Fear no more, says the heart.
Love had a thousand shapes.
But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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