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...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

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The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

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Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

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This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intui...more

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We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usu...more

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...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth...more

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People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiv...more

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In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

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Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been t...more

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

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It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

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Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...