"If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married."
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"If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts."
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"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
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"Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience."
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"Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record."
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"Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
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"Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human."
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"There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself."
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"To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls."
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"All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view."
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"He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things."
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"Only if the computers really love each other."
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"The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single."
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"You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere."
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"Being single is wonderful and I love it. I don't ever have a morning where I wake up and say, 'I really need to find a boyfriend today.'"
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"People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single."
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"I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot."
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"What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results."
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