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"The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself."
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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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"Families are wonderful institution,' he said. 'I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that."

"There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.What the devil was the reason?"

"And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?' he said softly.'Assuredly,' she said, 'provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything."

"Why is it,' she asked, snuggling closer, 'that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?"

"Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it."

"You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you."

"And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love."
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