Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.
Marie, let’s suppose that two firemen go into a forest to put out a small fire. Afterwards, when they emerge and go over to a stream, the face of one is all smeared with black, while the other man’s face is completely clean. My question...
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Paulo Coelho
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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Stefan Molyneux
A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
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Amit Kalantri
Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements, are things I no longer have an equivalent to. Who we were and who we are...
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Tanzy Sayadi
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A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
If they should only be ill, ' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he...
Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which...
And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and...
