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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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It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, o...more

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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

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Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

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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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Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that ...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