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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

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Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he di...more

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I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That’s what people are always doing in art. T...more

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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the gre...more

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Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more a...more

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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their plac...more

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The river of life, of mysterious laws and mysterious choice, flows past a deserted embankment; and along that other deserted embankment Charles now be...more

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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

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Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place lo...more

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Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

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It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, cou...more

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So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, sinc...more

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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be li...more