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If human lives be,for their very brevity, sweet,then beast lives are sweeter still...
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Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
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She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.
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My heart belongs to you,' He promised.'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?''I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.
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I was suddenly stricken with a feeling of black despair, hopelessly muddled by what was right and wrong. Nothing seemed clear cut; we did evil in the name of good, and good was done in the name of evil. [Chapter 27, page 306]
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Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.
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The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of ice and they couldn't feel anything anymore
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Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
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Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.
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