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I am now alone on earth, no longer having any brother, neighbor, friend, or society other than myself.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let anything except what is coming come
That is the way I always have felt
-Paul Bowles

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.
-Donna Tartt

As a 'self-seer', Schiele had formerly been extraordinarily attuned to his own internal responses, but at times blind to the outside world. In order to make more meaningful contact with others, would the artist have to lose touch with himself?
-Jane Kallir

The whole, impossibly complex goldberg invention of speech, wasted on someone who from the first listened only to that string of molecules governing cowardice.
-Richard Powers

Are there many little boys who think they are a
Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the
Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him
Joyfully
-Anne Carson

Hopefully we have done enough to deserve it.
-Halldór Laxness

...and the more dishevelled they look, the more beautiful I think them.
-Eugène Delacroix

Their faces are now familiar to you. They identify you, recognize you. They do not realise that these simple daily greetings, these mere smiles, these indifferent nods are all that keeps your head above water...
-Georges Perec

There is something very odd about seeing such strange types of humanity. You want to ask each one, who he is, what he does, and what he wishes and hopes for.
-Gustav Mahler

Among the trees, far from any human beings, there was a sort of magic peace. The more one could find a pure loneliness, with no taint of people, the better one felt.
-D. H. Lawrence

I think I would like a little more kindness
in the structure
but the nature of things has a way of not
listening.
-Charles Bukowski

It might not pain me very much to stop being a Roman emperor, but it certainly does pain me not even to have spoken to the seamstress who, at around nine o'clock, turns right at the corner.
-Fernando Pessoa

I am not of the big world, I am of the little world.
-Samuel Beckett