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“I belong to the 8% of the world population who calm their apprehension by drowning it in numbers.”
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“... they have never seen you ... I would recognize you anywhere. ”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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