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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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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage…
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A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from…
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
— Samuel Richardson
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
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We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world…
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