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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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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it bu...more

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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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I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

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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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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you a young lady?""I am a thousand...more

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A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth

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I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Further, on this subje...more

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This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

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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 . . .