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[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid.

Thou shalt be freeAs mountain winds: but then exactly doAll points of my command.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Heaven is for thee too highTo know what passes there; be lowly wise.Think only what concerns thee and thy being;Dream not of other worlds, what creatures thereLive, in what state, condition, or degree,Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in Reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so.

Then wilt thou not be loathTo leave this Paradise, but shalt possessA Paradise within thee, happier far.

The only question now is: How much can I hang on to?

But she makes hungryWhere she most satisfies...

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you, might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe, I thought only of you.

My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.