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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Virginia Woolf

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Beautiful Emotion Memories Past Present Time
Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Happiness Knife Melancholy Sad Separate Thick
Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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Consciousness Experience Human Illness Perception Truth
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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Age Birthday Born Insane Terrible
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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Bury Flesh Moments Pain Tears Togetherness
Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Existence Life Love One Liner Poet Woman
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Excitement Imagination Life One Liner
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Drift Frail Friendship
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Alone Be Yourself Hurry Inspirational Need Sparkle
They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Break Up Effort Love Mind Sad
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Delight Healing Intense Music Shut World
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Face Life Love Peace
Thinking is my fighting.
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Deep Fight Healing One Liner Thinking
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Brain Light Room
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Amazing Honesty Interesting Life Result Truth
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Beautiful Flower Inspirational Life Potential

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