All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
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