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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.

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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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Next to music beer was best.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else.
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The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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