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The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

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You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

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