Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug Coupland
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- Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
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- The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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