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It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed…
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Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very…
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I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life…
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Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
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It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It…
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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was…
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Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that…
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It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing…
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I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to…
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You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in…
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I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist;…
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All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother…
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human…
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by…
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Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it…
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
— George Eliot
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But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is…
— Philip O Ceallaigh
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own…
— Betty Friedan
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
— Robert E. Lee
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Contentment: The smother of invention.
— Ethel Mumford
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It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
— Ben Robertson
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At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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