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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
Whenever I do something that seems pretty good, do you know what it is to me? It is a whip to beat myself with!
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Her nerves were set all ajar by the scene of passion and terror through which she had just struggled.
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.