"I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going."
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"Pink Collar: An Awfully Lonesome Affair" in Hundreds and Thousands : The Journals of Emily Carr (2006)
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Emily Carr
Emily Carr (13 December 1871 – 2 March 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer.
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