“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
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Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
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One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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