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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1974)

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

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

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North to the Orient (1935)

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

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

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