It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

Michael Cunningham
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  1. You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  2. One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

  3. Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

  4. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

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