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madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

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Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.

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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

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The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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