He is never alone, but is nonetheless a lonely man in the dark halls of the palace.

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Italian actors picked up the best actor and actress categories - Luigi Lo Cascio won for Luce dei miei Occhi (Light of My Eyes), about a lonely young man and his obsession with a single mother.

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No one would miss the crippled man, no one went to a lonely place.

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She led a lonely crusade to exonerate James Earl Ray, the man who confessed to her husband's murder but later recanted.

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Born in 1887 near Manchester, he was a frugal, humble, humorous man, who was lonely in spirit rather than always solitary in fact.

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Meanwhile, Esperance striker Ali Zitouni, who must have felt very lonely playing as the sole striker against a four-man Enyimba defence, also had a great chance to give his side the lead in the 10th minute during a rare foray upfield.

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The story concerns the struggles of a nearly aphasic, socially challenged yet smart, painfully self-aware, and desperately lonely young man to get through his days and nights.

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