let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

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To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

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I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

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