For Me . Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? -- that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit?
David Foster Wallace
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I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as... 
Prudence asked further, “Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?”... 
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I can... 
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I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi... 
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Nothing brings you together like a common enemy. 
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