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Death is loneliness in its purest form.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter
Age: 90 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 15
Died: 1980
Died: September 18
Essayist
Journalist
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Indian Creek
Texas
Death
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Purest
Loneliness
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Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.
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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.
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Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.
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The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
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. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.
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One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to some of them to be able to ascribe incurable defects, such as belonging to a certain sex or base motives, or lack of understanding, to anyone whose views they disagree with.
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I can pray better when I'm comfortable.
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We are born knowing death.
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There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.
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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
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Be respectful of words. They mean something.
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Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.
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Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
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Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
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I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.
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Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?
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