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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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Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

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If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impra...more

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I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness, to the néant, and it seemed to ...more

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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don'...more

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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

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...there are times when silence is a poem.

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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that ...more