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"... how much we each want to be
the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose
into our own wide open without a single
harness of sin to stop us." — Jan 05, 2026 05:12AM
"... how much we each want to be
the pure exonerated creature, to be turned loose
into our own wide open without a single
harness of sin to stop us." — Jan 05, 2026 05:12AM
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
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