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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
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"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."

"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."
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"He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man."

"In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception."

"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

"Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being."

"I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin."

"What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self."

"But a good wife-a good unworldly woman-may really help a man, and keep him more independent."
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