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"And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness."
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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."
"We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don't like wasting my time on some assholes."
"How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone?"
"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."
"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one, two is two thousand times one."
"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."
"A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries."
"Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?"
"One moment you see that you aren't so Original... people leave you... people start ignoring you... people start making excuses."
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"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."
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"There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every side. God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in it's appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering."
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