"I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor"."
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"Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."
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"Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage."
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"I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever."
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"We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?"
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"In life nothing is taken to its ultimate conclusion, life is a half-way house, a place of obligatory compromise; and, in dealing in logical conclusions, a man steps out of life -- or so it would be quite legitimate to argue."
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"You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it."
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"When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people."
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"The house praises the carpenter."
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"Then all this earth shines like one house."
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"Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England."
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"Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time"
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"I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods."
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"I type in one place, but I write all over the house."
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"Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority."
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"I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer."
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"I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time."
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"There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck."
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"I love the eyebrow pencils. I do my brows every day. I won't leave my house without my brows! My beauty disaster from childhood was trying to look like Kate Moss and plucking all my brows off."
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"When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free."
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