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"Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
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"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."
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"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."
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"Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere."
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"All the things that people do in order to show that they don't need anybody... meanwhile, all they really want to do is say, "Please keep me." We all want to be kept. The problem is we are too afraid to let anyone know about it. What are these fragile things in our hearts that have so much fear of being broken?"
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"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
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"Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it. There was the silent river and the silent man, a man of even classic face. And there was the last nightmare touch that his smile suddenly went wrong."
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"There's still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then."
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"On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it--that disgusts me."
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"A heart in love is a thriller book of many stories."
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"She paused and unexpectedly stroked her fingers down the feathers of his neck.He froze. She couldn't know how intimate that seemed, or how sensitive he was to her touch even through the sleek covering of eagle feathers. Pleasure at being petted ran down his spine.He should say something or step away. He did neither. Instead, ever so slightly, he leaned into her touch.It was wrong of him, but his wrong button seemed to be broken, and he didn't care."
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"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."
Philosophy
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
Friendship
"Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly."
Tragedy
"I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses."
Society
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
Man
"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
Country
"Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
Art
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
Dying
"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
Love
"I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say."
Life
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