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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men: that you may belong to everything and everything be yours inclusive of yourself.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

If we are bothered by possessions we cannot really live either from without or from within; we are the possession of our possessions.

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