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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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 ...
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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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Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from...
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In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for h...
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Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What wa...
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Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of ev...
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Nestled next to me, she nodded. “I’m fine. As long as I take the medicine. So don’t worry.” She leaned her head back against my shoulder. “But don’t a...
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And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden ...
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
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I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
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The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.
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It was as natural and obvious to me as breathing. So I assumed that everyone else was doing it too. When I realized that everyone else was not doing i...
