"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
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"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.“
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-Algernon H. Blackwood
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"You are forever alone."
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-John Buchanan Robinson
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