Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

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But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

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The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

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This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

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There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

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You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.

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"You see a person with kids", she said, "and you see how happy they are to be a parent, and you�re attracted to their happiness. Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things".

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Sleep was the ideally work-compatible girl he ought to have married in the first place. Perfectly submissive, infinitely forgiving, and so respectable you could take her to church.

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The only guaranteed result of having an affair would be to add yet another disapproving woman to his life.

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Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact. The family was the house's soul.

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