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What will Ofwarren give birth to? A baby, as we all hope? Or something else, an Unbaby, with a pinhead or a snout like a dog's, or two bodies, or a hole in its heart or no arms, or webbed hands and feet? There's no telling. They could tell once, with machines, but that is now outlawed. What would be the point of knowing, anyway? You can't have them taken out; whatever it is must be carried to term.

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Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew. The news paper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.   From

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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime,

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Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently

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There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

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Pues cuando Él quiere que una cosa se mueva, bien que la hace alargada, sean caminos o caballos o carros; pero cuando Él quiere que una cosa se esté quieta, la hace para arriba, como los árboles y los hombres.

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You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm

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Dieses Etwas, das tiefer liegt und geheimer ist. Es ist wie ein Riss tief in dir drin.

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Though Darcy could never receive him at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession.

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No more have I," said Mr. Bennet; "and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you." Mrs. Bennet deigned

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Почти все люди хорошие, когда их в конце концов поймешь.

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Vorbele nu-s bune la nimic; vorbele nu se potrivesc nici chiar cu ceea ce încearcă ele să zică. Maternitatea a fost inventată de cineva căruia îi trebuia un cuvânt pentru asta. Frica a fost inventată de cineva căruia nu i-a fost niciodată frică; mândria, de cel care nu a avut niciodată mândrie. Trebuie ca noi să ne folosim unul de altul cu ajutorul cuvintelor, ca păienjenii atârnați cu gura de-o grindă, legănându-se și răsucindu-se și niciodată atingând pământul.

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He pulls down one of my straps, slides his other hand in among the feathers, but it's no good, I lie there like a dead bird. He is not a monster, I think. I can't afford pride or aversion, there are all kinds of things that have to be discarded, under the circumstances. "Maybe I should turn the lights out," says the Commander, dismayed and no doubt disappointed. I see him for a moment before he does this. Without his uniform he looks smaller, older, like something being dried. The trouble is that I can't be, with him, any different from the way I usually am with him. Usually I'm inert. Surely there must be something here for us, other than this futility and bathos.

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Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.

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forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath

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Digital communication is such a problem sometimes.

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She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really looked almost wild.

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