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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. – Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

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When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton

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The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. – H.F. Hedge

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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them. – D.H. Lawrence

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We lovd, and we lovd as long as we could
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