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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people.
“Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.”
― The Birth-Mark
― The Birth-Mark
“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
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“I have this notion that maybe this world is the hell of the angels. That maybe we're creatures with angels exiled in our souls, banished to this godawful existence, howling in despair...and all those beautiful dreams we have are only the ravings of those angels, their screams in our animal minds.”
― A Cry of Angels
― A Cry of Angels
“... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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