We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

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Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

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For I have known them all already, known them all Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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