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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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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be…
— Joseph Epstein
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Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether…
— Hilary Putnam
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The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there…
— Robert Stack
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Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man…
— Milan Kundera
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We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together…
— Evo Morales
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Funny how we take our historical heritage can be proudof his chest, but these do not like to make the trade name…
— Mak_786
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