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The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them ...more

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A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutelynecessary. What do you have to offer meI ...more

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The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if...more

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Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away ...more

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At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial stone or wooden cocoons, or chrysalises. They have ...more

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By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I ...more

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A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

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I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.