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But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.
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The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
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A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.
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It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.
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There is comfort in routine.
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Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.
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It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
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I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
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Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.
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