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"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."
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"Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamn lonely anymore."
"The Forest that had been about her all her life, certain as a mountain, was made ashes. The high gable that had stood for two hundred years fallen in ruin. Throvenland was torn apart like smoke on the wind. Nowhere would be safe, ever again."
"This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face."
"Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand."
"Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering wings and refusing her flight. A whisper in her mind. You don't belong here."
"I slump in my chair, thinking how a narcotic party of one is no party at all."
"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
"The best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme."
"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."
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"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."
"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence."
"Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word."
"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."
"The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another."
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