When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this … - Daniel Keyes

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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard. . . Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

Daniel Keyes

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

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Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

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I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

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I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

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I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

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