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Henry David Thoreau’s Walden posted on the wall: “Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, & again, & forever again.”
“You make me think of Casanova, except that in between the erotic, Casanova was boring, while you, in between eroticism and even because of it, you get profound.”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
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“Yes, it is you, and I am in love with you and I am going to be frank with you, brutally frank, because when you have an equal you can afford to be frank.”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
“I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose”
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"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose”
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