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““I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted.””

William Boyd

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Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

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“Here at its extremities the terrified transients gathered, gazing out at the vast refulgent ocean for some sign of security.”

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“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.”

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Human beings are interested in the human condition.

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I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.

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“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,”

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There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

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“All great artists are doubters.”

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“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.”

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“Treat every natural beauty you met as if you see them for the first and last time!”

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“I won’t break your heart. For the first time in my life, I’ve found something worth fighting for, someone more important than me.”

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