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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
I've seldom minded other people's opinions but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them um their opinions about me I mean.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand, nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
