"It's you my love, you who are the stranger."
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"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
"Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted."
"Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger."
""Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection."
"We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge."
"Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire."
"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."
"There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned."
"For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself."
"I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger."
"And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
"Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts."
"Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger."
"Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you."
"When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know."
"surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain"
"In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy."
"It’s sad when friends become enemies. But what’s even worse is when they become strangers."
"An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger."