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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
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"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."

"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

"He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime."
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"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."

"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it."

"Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless."

"It is a common sentence that knowledge is power, but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down."

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."
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