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But life had shifted its weight from one point to another, like a silent giant in the vast shadows against the ridge, and I did not feel like the person I had been when this day began, and I did not even know if that was something to be sorry for.
- Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses

I went through one of those giddy periods where I believed what people told me, and naturally it ended in grief.
- Hunter S. Thompson, 11/25/1982