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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
We must relearn to be alone.
Fame separates you from life.
So many things we love are you!
One must lose one's life to find it.
I think best with a pencil in my hand.
Packing is chiefly planning -- if it is
I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
Frenchwomen just never look ungroomed, do they?
Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?
For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.
I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
God may want you to be the answer to your own prayer.
Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.
Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.
there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think.
To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!
I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.
If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.
Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.
life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.
For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.
people talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!
Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .
Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?
Woman must come of age by herself... She must find her true center alone.
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.
No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
