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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Loneliness Starvation Hungry Eat
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Daydreamer Prepared
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Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted? If it were not for language, could we lie?

Language Insrument Trusted Lie
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Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Love Trust Possibility
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Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Betrayal Wound Love
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Every scar in my face is worth it.

Scar Face Worth
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Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Death Scene Act
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Linked Blood Memory Language
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Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion

Beauty Question Sight Illusion
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love Hate Powerful
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Reading Involuntarily Voice Soul
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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

Girl Life Addictive Live
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The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

Denial Language Suicidal Lives
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Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.

Love Forgiveness Degree
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Strange Light Darkness Complete
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Society Picnic Individuals Enjoy
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Food Poetry
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Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

Hating Spitting You
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Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Writing Consequence Hunted Material
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end

Time Fixed Forgotten Misery
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Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

Writing Activity Bribe Suicide
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Lovely World Simply Look
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

Language Death Silence
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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Art Expression Human spirit
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There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Nothing Ordinary Reality
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Much in our lives is chance.

Lives Chance
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

Writing Loneliness Privacy Freedom
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Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Tragedy Form Art
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Art Freedom Expression Ideal
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All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Life Love Family Friends
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I think the message of peace is for everyone.

Think Message Peace Everyone
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A job is not just a job. It’s who you are.

Job Who You
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I'm pretty certain that if there is a will there is a way.

Certain Will Way
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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Original Primary Gender Imitation
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Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Life Protected Precarious Value
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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

Possibility Luxury Crucial
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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Think Sexual Position Comic
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I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Gender Feminism Women Equality
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Gender Identity Expressions Results
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Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.

Love Feeling History Vision
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Operate Power Domination
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Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

People Think Technology Old
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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Enforce Morality Immorality Discreet
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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Impressive Discover Qualities Help
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People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

People Informality Feel Disastrous
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Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Hypocrisy Social Sin Virtue
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Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Society Exist Etiquette Century
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Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Life Passions Years Reading
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Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

Manners Consideration Human beings
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