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He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.

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It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

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The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

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Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

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The law is an ass, an idiot.

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It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

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Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

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Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

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For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.

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the sight of me is good for sore eyes

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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

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Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

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I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

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