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cdf7aeb	He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.	sleep pnin wrist left-handed vladimir-nabokov insomnia left insomniac	Vladimir Nabokov
1c41f65	The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.	middle compromise diversity conversation left right creativity	Terry Tempest Williams
f5ae23f	The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.	understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul	Robin Hobb
4820e9a	When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.	meaning life street left direction person right	Denis Johnson
af26e67	"It's a matter of dignity," the Chief explained. "At a certain point, that's all you have left."	left point	Tom Perrotta
36be36a	Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.	terminal ill time thoughts left disease	Mitch Albom

cdf7aeb

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

sleep pnin wrist left-handed vladimir-nabokov insomnia left insomniac

Vladimir Nabokov

1c41f65

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

middle compromise diversity conversation left right creativity

Terry Tempest Williams

f5ae23f

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.

understanding fate pain sorrow comprehension farewell left choose leave part-ways separate wait sincere return seek realize hurt fitz wish follow knowledge desire fool soul

Robin Hobb

4820e9a

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.

meaning life street left direction person right

Denis Johnson

af26e67

"It's a matter of dignity," the Chief explained. "At a certain point, that's all you have left."

left point

Tom Perrotta

36be36a

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

terminal ill time thoughts left disease

Mitch Albom