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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has…
— Guy de Rothschild
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If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
— Leo Buscaglia
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One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
— Barry Lopez
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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
— Paul Bourget
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One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
— Gaston Bachelard
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One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
— Mary Renault
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One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture
— Multatuli
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It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider…
— Paul Bourget
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Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live,…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.
— Arina Tanemura
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There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must…
— Leo Tolstoy
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