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Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

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...for hope is always born at the same time as love...

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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

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Nothin’s real scary except in books.

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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.

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Bet I know something else you don't. There's dew on the grass in the morning.'He suddenly couldn't remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable. 'And if you look'—she nodded at the sky—'there's a man on the moon.'He hadn't looked for a long time.

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Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

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Give me my sin again.

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Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

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Walking along the crowded rowHe met the one he used to know.

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For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.  

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Under the spreading chestnut treeI sold you and you sold me--

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It’s history. It’s poetry.

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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

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I hold my peace, sir? no;No, I will speak as liberal as the north;Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

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I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

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She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts.""That's not any better!

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