Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days.
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Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
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The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
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Life is accepting what is and working from that.
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But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
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The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
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