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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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