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"   I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.   "

"   The world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.   "

"   Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.   "

"   He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow, and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.   "

"   Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.   "

"   If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.   "

"   Eye contact: how souls catch fire.   "

"   Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.   "

"   It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.   "

"   Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.   "