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One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
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I... understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or children. It has to do primarily with distractions.... Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life or saintly life.
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The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.
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Once you get beyond the crust of the first pang it is all the same and you can easily bear it. It is just the transition from painlessness to pain that is so terrible.
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One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
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I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again — or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.
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Here sits the Unicorn
In captivity;
His bright invulnerability
Captive at last
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He could leap the corral,
If he rose
To his full height;
He could splinter the fencing light,
With three blows
Of his porcelain hoofs in flight —
If he chose.
He could shatter his prison wall,
Could escape them all —
If he rose,
If he chose.
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I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.
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Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.
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I do not like talking casually to people — it does not interest me — and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
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The world today does not understand, in either man or woman, the need to be alone. How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse.
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Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
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Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
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Forgotten the strife;
Now the need to kill
Has died like fire,
And the need to love
Has replaced desire
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Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray.
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I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be! The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.
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When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.
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People talk about 'sex' as though it hopped about by itself, like a frog!
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We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort.... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.
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Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?
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The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.
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The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Born:
June 22, 1906
Died:
February 7, 2001
(aged 94)
Bio:
Anne Spencer Lindbergh was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Known for:
Gift from the Sea (1955)
North to the Orient (1935)
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1973)
War within and without (1980)
Bring Me a Unicorn (1972)
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