...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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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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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...
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I am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They ...
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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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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...
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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...
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Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.
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On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed s...
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Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.
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More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.
