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I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on me in which every part of my brain is shut down ex...more

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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. Peo...more

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For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. ‘Love’ is one of those wor...more

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people an...more