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"Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and I'll take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that you've handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar."

"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."

"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
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