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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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