- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
- Minor
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are minor in everything but our passions.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
- Mixture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
- Heated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
- Simply
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020