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It's a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask.

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Katherine Mansfield
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Category: Loneliness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Although it is generally known I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
  • 2. I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age who are still in the process of forming themselves as women and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
  • 3. When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
  • 2. Well Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
  • 3. I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people beautiful beaches great wine wonderful harbors… It's incredibly romantic.

3 Anger

  • 1. I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me that was fascinating.
  • 2. Anger is never without a reason but seldom with a good one.
  • 3. In times of great stress or adversity it's always best to keep busy to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 2. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 3. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

5 Architecture

  • 1. My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
  • 2. I don't divide architecture landscape and gardening to me they are one.
  • 3. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
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