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"He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps."
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"If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in."

"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."

"We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don't like wasting my time on some assholes."

"Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drift, the drift, the silent drift of blinding snow. I saw the high hotel windows, the lights, the shadows.What's it like up there? I thought. Are fires lit? Is it warm as breath? Who are all those people? Are they drinking? Are they happy?Do they even know I'm HERE?"

"Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness."

"We both were there, but alone. "Bye," she said and left; I was alone; again, one more time."

"Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age."

"It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain."

"No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!"
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."

"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."

"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
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