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"He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of disorder."
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"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."

"Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy."

"Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top."

"There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life."

"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
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"As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation."

"Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting."

"I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world."

"The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places."

"This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be."

"I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone."

"The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return."

"One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman."

"There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense."
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