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That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.
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I thought she would be fun to have fun with.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
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Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.
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