To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely. - Peter Carey

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. . . by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

Peter Carey

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

Art, Being Lonely, Know, Lonely, Same

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I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.

Floating, Frightening, Loneliness, Space, Stars

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

Art, Eye, Eyes, Love, People

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Begun, Further, Novel, Stretch, Stretched

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

Buttons, Lying, Meaning, Real

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Cliffs, Draft, Earth, Firsts, Making

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. . . by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

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I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

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