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"I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future."
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
"I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world."
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience."
"Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car.They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it."
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
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