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"The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Men
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
Society
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
People
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
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"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War
"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War
"To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult."
Nature
"Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world."
Time
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
Thought
"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."
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"John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him."
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"The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship."
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"To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult."
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"There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with."
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"This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam."
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"Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren't sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world."
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"Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance."
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"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
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"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
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"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished."
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