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...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

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Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

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We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usu...more

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...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

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Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been t...more

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

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It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

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Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

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On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed s...more

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Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

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More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

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Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

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I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the desc...more