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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
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Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
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He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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