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• Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or… — Abraham Lincoln
• Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing… — Judith Thurman
• In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on… — Rebecca Solnit
• Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your… — Leo Szilard
• You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of… — Yukio Mishima
• Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of… — Andrew Sean Greer
• We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about… — Thomas Harris

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