"Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial."
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"Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend."
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"We neither of us perform to strangers."
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"One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger."
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"It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers."
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"It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits."
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"It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better."
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"Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another"
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"In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?""
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"I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger."
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"Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago."
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"I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers."
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"We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced."
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"I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."
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"Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter."
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"Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction."
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"Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also."
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"All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious."
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""Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment."
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"A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman."
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