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Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound.

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Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than...more

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He was dying all his life.

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I look around me sometimes and I get sick to my stomach. Why the hell don't these bastards do something? I wonder. They don't do a damn thing, and the...more

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

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It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

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I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.

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With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

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Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourse...more

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I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.

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She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good a...more

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In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply.

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I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the I...more

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It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger

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Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

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Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.

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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it ...more

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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.

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I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

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I don't know, it's stupid being 20," she said. "I'm just not ready. It feels weird. Like somebody's pushing me from behind.

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I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

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If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

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I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

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There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.

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I always felt as if I'd been handed a cardboard box crammed full of monkeys. I'd take the monkeys out of the box one at a time, carefully brush off th...more

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She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

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We walked side by side to the station. The sweater kept me comfortable in the night air.“Okay, I’ll keep plugging away,” she said.“Wasn’t much help, w...more

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Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rai...more

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For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some u...more