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This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognized for what i...more

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A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

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It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. So they get themselves drawn into ...more

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i know more than i know and must learn it from myself

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It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me th...more

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Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simp...more

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We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.