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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."
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"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

"Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value."

"American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has lost anything. I find that very sad. Do you know what I mean?"

"So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness."
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"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that."

"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."

"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
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