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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.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea (1955)

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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

The Wave of the Future (1940)

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

North to the Orient (1935)

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

The Wave of the Future (1940)

Life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

War Within and Without (1980)

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