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It's as if he said to me: "I like you very much, but if it doesn't please you I'll never say it again.
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What could be more dreary than final interviews? One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards.
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Deep in her breast she believed that he had invested his all in her happiness, while the others had invested only a part.
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I don't know what great unhappiness might bring me to; but it seems to me I shall always be ashamed.
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With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.
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The peril for you is that you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You're not enough in contact with reality — with the toiling, striving, suffering, I may even say sinning, world that surrounds you. You're too fastidious; you've too many graceful illusions.
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I've been deceived too often; I've ceased to form attachments, to permit myself to feel attractions.
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The great thing is to love something.
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She does everything beautifully. She's complete.
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