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There's only one loneliness, and that's the loneliness of all the world.

"When you're young you have something to feed on, an inner iron ration that keeps your strength up. When you're older, when your life is past, that's used up, there's only the hollow place where the nourishment has been."

My heart was using something thicker than blood and it was clogging up my brain like dying.

Soaking in warm water seemed to wash something away; not guilt because I never felt guilty, but the sort of old contacts with things and people. You skinned them off and left them in the water. When you stepped out you were being born again.

Try being grateful when you're expected to be grateful; it mops you up.