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Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by ...

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...

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There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...

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Good things happen when you meet strangers.

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, c...

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The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow ...

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Don't let strangers touch you." And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenag...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a...

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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally i...

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Chuck KlostermanI Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but wha...

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The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the indivi...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask myself what their lives might be like. I want to know what th...

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I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth...

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Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your fam...

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I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers a...

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We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest a...

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Jonathan SacksThe Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are...

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They were my family, yet they were strangers.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind t...

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Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putt...

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStran...

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But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

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Shirley JacksonWe Have Always Lived in the Castle

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.