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I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds? .Kij Johnson
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Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.Kij Johnson
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Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.Kij Johnson
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Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.Kij Johnson