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Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I pass days laborious and loveless; nights long and ...more

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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot aff...more

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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

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Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objectsof affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing afaded g...more

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It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the por...more

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. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . . .