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"I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life."
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"Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness."
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"Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children."
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"You are alone, I am alone; we don't get together why we complain so much."
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"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."
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"We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces."
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"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her " a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."
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"Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them."
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"Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it."
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"Aomame raised her glass to the moon and asked, "Have you gone to bed with someone in your arms lately? The moon did not answer. "Do you have any friends? she asked. The moon did not answer. "Don't you get tired of always playing it cool? The moon did not answer."
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"We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don't like wasting my time on some assholes."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
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"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency


"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity


"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party


"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure


"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort


"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender


"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Rules


"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
Simplicity


"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."
Misfortune
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